Robotic systems have experienced exponential growth thanks to their incredible adaptability. Modern robots require an increasing level of autonomy, safety and reliability. This book addresses the challenges of increasing and ensuring reliability and safety of modern robotic and autonomous systems.

The authors present a comprehensive review of fog computing systems including energy efficiency and quality of service issues, reliability and fault tolerance, load balancing, and scheduling, utilizing mobile edge computing, internet of things, resource estimation and virtualization in fog computing environments for smart applications.