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State of the art in robot software development mostly relies on class library reuse and only to a limited extent to component-based design. In the BRICS project we have defined a software development process that is based on the two most recent and promising approaches to software reuse, i.e. Software Product Line (SPL) and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). The aim of this paper is to illustrate the whole software development process that we have defined for developing flexible and reusable component-based robotics libraries, to exemplify it with the case study of robust navigation functionality, and to present the software tools that we have developed for supporting the proposed process.
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Brugali, D., Gherardi, L., Biziak, A., Luzzana, A., Zakharov, A. (2012). A Reuse-Oriented Development Process for Component-Based Robotic Systems. In: Noda, I., Ando, N., Brugali, D., Kuffner, J.J. (eds) Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. SIMPAR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7628. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34327-8_33
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