Context Several research efforts have been targeted to support architecture centric
development and evolution of software for robotic systems for the last two decades …

Advances in robotics and cognitive sciences have stimulated expectations for emergence of
new generations of robotic devices that interact and cooperate with people in ordinary …

Abstract Context: The Robot Operating System (ROS) is the de-facto standard for robotics
software. However, ROS-based systems are getting larger and more complex and could …

Robotic systems are complex, software intensive and heterogeneous composite systems.
Software systems engineering and system integration is still a major challenge in robotics …

Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) has become the de-facto standard framework
for robotics software, and a great part of commercial robots is expected to have at least one …

A model is an abstract representation of a real system or phenomenon [1]. The idea of a
model is to capture important properties of reality and to eglect irrelevant details. The …

Robot software systems tend to be complex. This complexity is due, in large part, to the need
to control diverse sensors and actuators in real time, in the face of significant uncertainty and …

" Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics" collects contributions that describe the
state of the art in software development for the Robotics domain. It reports on innovative …

This special issue on software engineering (SE) for robotics captures a snapshot of current
research issues and state-of-the-practice in robotic software development, a topic that has …

In recent years, several technical architectural paradigms have been proposed to support
the development of distributed and concurrent systems. Object-oriented, component-based …