Contributions
Thisthesisprovidesthegroundworkforgivingawidelydistributedgroupofrobotstheabilitytolearn todetectandrecognize3Dobjectscooperatively. Onthebasisofthiswork,participatingrobotscould sharetheirknowledgewithothersviamycloudservice. Althoughmanyresearchershavepointedout the utility of cloud resources for robotic application, few have actually build up such a capability. This thesis is among the first research work to demonstrate the use of cloud resources in a practical service robot application.