Containerization promises to strengthen platform- independent development, better resource utilization, and secure de- ployment of software. As these benefits come with negligible overhead in CPU and memory utilization, containerization is increasingly being adopted in mobile robotic applications. An open challenge is supporting software tasks that have mixed-criticality requirements. Even more challenging is the combination of real-time containers with orches- tration, which is an emerging paradigm to automate the deployment, networking, scaling, and availability of containerized workloads and services. This paper addresses this challenge by presenting a framework that extends the de-facto reference standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes, to schedule tasks with mixed-criticality requirements. Quantitative experimental results on the software implementing the mission of a Robotnik RB-Kairos mobile robot demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The source code is publicly available on GitHub.

Containerization and Orchestration of Software for Autonomous Mobile Robots: a Case Study of Mixed-Criticality Tasks across Edge-Cloud Computing Platforms

Francesco Lumpp;Franco Fummi;Hiren D. Patel;Nicola Bombieri
2022-01-01

Abstract

Containerization promises to strengthen platform- independent development, better resource utilization, and secure de- ployment of software. As these benefits come with negligible overhead in CPU and memory utilization, containerization is increasingly being adopted in mobile robotic applications. An open challenge is supporting software tasks that have mixed-criticality requirements. Even more challenging is the combination of real-time containers with orches- tration, which is an emerging paradigm to automate the deployment, networking, scaling, and availability of containerized workloads and services. This paper addresses this challenge by presenting a framework that extends the de-facto reference standard for container orchestration, Kubernetes, to schedule tasks with mixed-criticality requirements. Quantitative experimental results on the software implementing the mission of a Robotnik RB-Kairos mobile robot demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The source code is publicly available on GitHub.
2022
Containerization
Kubernetes
Mobile robot
Edge-Cloud continuum
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