Standardisation has become imperative to retaining order and development in modern
society. The simplest actions, such as train timings and the width of the railroad, would be …

Robots are complex systems composed of many interacting subsystems, each coordinating
a multitude of hardware and software components. In the last twenty years, robotic …

This paper presents a library of AADL models for ROS based applications. AADL models are
provided for every ROS services, namely nodes, and for complete robots hardware and …

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is a middleware that eases the programming of robotic
applications significantly, bringing standard communication and synchronization …

Robotic software can exhibit low performances even while running on allegedly powerful
multi-core processor platforms. To find why is essential to guarantee the success of a …

Software development for robotics applications is still a major challenge that becomes even
more complex when considering a Multi-Robot System (MRS). Such a distributed software …

Developing, configuring, and deploying legacy protocol gateways for existing cyber-physical
systems to improve interoperability remains challenging. A possible solution is using model …