Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics

Robot Software: Principles and Challenges.- Trends in Robot Software Domain Engineering.- Stable Analysis Patterns for Robot Mobility.- The CLARAty Project: Coping with Hardware and Software Heterogeneity.- Simulation and Testbeds of Autonomous Robots in Harsh Environments.- Writing Code in the Field: Implications for Robot Software Development.- Software Environments for Robot Programming.- Sidebar - Programming Commercial Robots.- Component-Based Robotics.- Trends in Component-Based Robotics.- CoolBOT: A Component Model and Software Infrastructure for Robotics.- ROCI: Strongly Typed Component Interfaces for Multi-robot Teams Programming.- Communication Patterns as Key Towards Component Interoperability.- Using MARIE for Mobile Robot Component Development and Integration.- Orca: A Component Model and Repository.- Sidebar - Software Architectures.- Robotic Software Frameworks.- Trends in Robotic Software Frameworks.- Reusable Robot Software and the Player/Stage Project.- An Integration Framework for Developing Interactive Robots.- Increasing Decoupling in the Robotics4.NET Framework.- VIP: The Video Image Processing Framework Based on the MIRO Middleware.- MRT: Robotics Off-the-Shelf with the Modular Robotic Toolkit.- Towards Framework-Based U×V Software Systems: An Applied Research Perspective.- Sidebar - Middlewares for Distributed Computing.- Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Trends in Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Advanced Teleoperation Architecture.- A Multi-robot-Multi-operator Collaborative Virtual Environment.- Modularity and Mobility of Distributed Control Software for Networked Mobile Robots.- Sidebar - Java3D for Web-Based Robot Control.