Glossary
Key terms and concepts in robotics fleet management, DevOps, edge computing, and the Roboticks platform. Select a term to learn what it means and how Roboticks implements it.
- Air-Gapped Deployment
A deployment model where systems operate without any connection to external networks, including the internet.
- Anomaly Detection
The identification of patterns in data that deviate significantly from expected behavior.
- Bastion Deployment
A hybrid deployment model where a secure gateway (bastion host) bridges an isolated internal network with external management services.
- Blue-Green Deployment
A deployment strategy that maintains two identical environments (blue and green).
- Canary Deployment
A deployment strategy where a new software version is rolled out to a small subset of devices (the canary group) before being deployed to the full fleet.
- Capsule
A versioned, packaged robot application used as the deployment unit in Roboticks.
- Edge Computing
A computing paradigm where data processing happens close to the data source (the edge) rather than in a centralized cloud.
- Fleet Management
The practice of monitoring, configuring, and controlling a group of robots or IoT devices from a centralized platform.
- Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing (HIL)
A testing methodology where software is tested against real hardware or high-fidelity hardware simulators, rather than purely in simulation.
- MQTT
A lightweight publish-subscribe messaging protocol designed for IoT devices with limited bandwidth and unreliable networks.
- Reverse Tunnel
A network tunnel initiated from a device behind a firewall or NAT to an external server, allowing inbound connections to reach the device without opening firewall ports.
- Robot Observability
The ability to understand the internal state of a robotic system through its external outputs — logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
- Robot Telemetry
The automated collection, transmission, and measurement of data from robotic systems.
- Robotics DevOps
The application of DevOps principles — continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and collaboration — to robotics software development and deployment.
- Rollout Strategy
A deployment plan that determines how software updates are distributed across a fleet of devices.
- ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2)
An open-source robotics middleware framework that provides tools, libraries, and conventions for building robot applications.
- X.509 Certificate
A digital certificate standard used for authenticating the identity of devices, users, or services in a public key infrastructure (PKI).
- Zero-Trust Security
A security model where no device, user, or network is trusted by default.