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Improving the Interoperability in the Digital Home Through the Automatic Generation of Software Adapters from a SysML Model

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In the context of the Digital Home, where multiple heterogeneous systems live together, many efforts have been made to achieve the standardization that will guarantee the interoperability among them. The Digital Home Compliant (DHC) open communication protocol arises to meet that requirement by means of a software adapter for each device that acts as intermediary with the DHC network. Based on the fact that all the adapters have a high proportion of source code in common, this paper aims to go a step further in the use of the protocol automating the adapters’ process generation, following the Model Driven Architecture approach. The Web Services Java code is created from a template and a SysML model of the system, allowing the automatic deployment of the adapter and therefore, enhancing the global interoperability of the system. The case of study of a specific adapter development – Roomba service robot – is explained in this communication to illustrate the advantages of this proposal.

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  1. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Valladolid, Paseo del Cauce S/N, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    M. Rodríguez Fernández

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, C/Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós S/N Mieres, Asturias, Spain

    I. González Alonso

  3. Instituto de las Tecnologías Avanzadas del a Producción, University of Valladolid, Paseo del Cauce S/N, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    E. Zalama Casanova

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Fernández, M.R., Alonso, I.G. & Casanova, E.Z. Improving the Interoperability in the Digital Home Through the Automatic Generation of Software Adapters from a SysML Model. J Intell Robot Syst 86, 511–521 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-016-0419-z

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