Autonomous robots are complex systems that require the interaction between numerous
heterogeneous components (software and hardware). Because of the increase in complexity …

The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing
systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress in …

Abstract Robotic Development Environments (RDEs) have come to play an increasingly
important role in robotics research in general, and for the development of architectures for …

Robotics is an area of research in which the paradigm of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) can
prove to be highly useful. Multi-Agent Systems come in the form of cooperative robots in a …

A component is a reusable and replaceable software module accessed through its interface.
Component‐based development is expected to shorten the development period, reduce …

The development of intelligent surveillance systems is an active research area. In this
context, mobile and multi-functional robots are generally adopted as means to reduce the …

Nowadays, the construction of a complex robotic system requires a high level of
specialization in a large number of diverse scientific areas. It is reasonable that a single …

Intense efforts to define a common structure in robotic applications, both from a conceptual
and from an implementation point of view, have been carried out in the last years and …

The idea of component-based software engineering was proposed more that 40 years ago,
yet only few robotics software frameworks follow these ideas. The main problem with …

The usage of mobile sensor platforms arose in research a few decades ago. Since the
beginning of satellite sensing, measurement principles and analysing methods have …