Cloud Robotics with ROS

Cloud computing can greatly enhance robotic applications, not only by complementing robotic resources (e.g., CPU/GPU, memory, storage), but also by providing global-scale highly available services, distributed application management solutions, proven development and deployment practices. However, several challenges have to be addressed in order to bridge the gap between cloud and robotic development, including ROS and cloud design assumptions, networking, and mobile robots. In this chapter we present ECRP, a Platform as a Service solution for building ROS-based cloud robotics applications.