Abstract
A huge corpus of open source robotic software libraries is available on ROS repositories that can be reused to develop a large variety of robot control systems. The difficult challenge consists in selecting and integrating a coherent set of components that provide the required functionality taking into account their mutual dependencies and architectural mismatches. The HyperFlex approach presented in this chapter enables the explicit representation of robot system architectures, functional variability, and application requirements as software models that can be manipulated by a system configuration engine.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (2007–2013) under grant agreement no. FP7-ICT-231940-BRICS (Best Practice in Robotics). The authors would like to thank all the partners of the BRICS project for their valuable comments.
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Brugali, D., Gherardi, L. (2016). HyperFlex: A Model Driven Toolchain for Designing and Configuring Software Control Systems for Autonomous Robots. In: Koubaa, A. (eds) Robot Operating System (ROS). Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 625. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26054-9_20
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