Communication Patterns as Key towards Component-Based Robotics

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

关键词: software engineering;    component approach;    software reuse;    communication pattern;    robotics;   

DOI  :  10.5772/5759

学科分类：自动化工程

来源: InTech

【 摘 要 】

Vital functions of mobile robots are provided by software and software dominance is still growing. Mastering the software complexity is not only a demanding but also indispensable task towards an operational robot. Nevertheless, well-known and even always needed algorithms are often implemented from scratch over and over again instead of being reused as off-the-shelf components. A major reason is the lack of a framework that allows to compose robotics software out of standardized components without already prescribing a robotics architecture. Whereas Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is an approach to make a shift from implementation to composition, the general CBSE approach does not give any hints on how to ensure that independently provided components finally fit together as reusable components. This paper introduces a small set of communication patterns as basis for all intercomponent interactions. Since all externally visible interfaces of components are composed out of the same set of commu...

【 授权许可】

CC BY