Component Specifications for Robotics Integration

  • Authors:

  • E. Messina;J. Horst;T. Kramer;H. Huang;J. Michaloski

  • Affiliations:

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Robotics researchers have been unable to capitalize easily on existingsoftware components to speed up their development efforts and maximizetheir system‘s capabilities. A component-based approach for buildingthe software for robotics systems can provide reuse and sharingabilities to the research community. The software engineeringcommunity has been studying reuse techniques for three decades. Wepresent several results from those efforts that are applicable to therobotics software integration problem. We describe how to specify asoftware component so that a potential user may understand itscapabilities and facilitate its application to his or her system. Atthe National Institute of Standards and Technology, we have developeda three-stage, component-specification approach. We illustrate thisapproach for a component that is relevant to robotics.