Robotics software has shown solid signs of growth over the past several years and is expected to remain on this growth trajectory as long as software continues to play a central role in the embodiment of robotic intelligence in modern robot systems within the research community and also in industrial and consumer markets. When robotics systems are deployed in real and industrial scenarios, the scale and requirements increase and issues of software engineering become more prominent. In particular the issues of quality, reusability, deployability, maintainability and safety become critical and central to the engineering task. Important developments include those related to component based software design, separation of concerns, software frameworks for distributed and real time robotics and automation systems, combining high level decision making with low level geometry and control systems. This organized session will focus on novel aspects of robotics software and architecture, including real environment systems, integration in to real environments, standard development processes, software architecture design, the community level of development, and industry issues.
Please submit your paper to IRC 2017 and click the box for “Software and Architecture” (rather than main conference).
Organizers
Bruce A. MacDonald
Co-chair, IEEE TC on Software Engineering or Robotics and Automation (TC-SOFT)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Email: b.macdonald@auckland.ac.nz
William D. Smart
School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University, USA
Email: bill.smart@oregonstate.edu
Contact
Bruce A. MacDonald
Co-chair, IEEE TC on Software Engineering or Robotics and Automation (TC-SOFT)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Email: b.macdonald@auckland.ac.nz