A Reference Architecture for Deploying Component-Based Robot Software and Comparison with Existing Tools

Reference architectures (RAs) are successfully used to represent families of concrete software architectures in several domains such as automotive, banking, and the Internet of Things. RAs inspire architects when designing concrete architectures, and they help to guarantee compliance with architectural decisions, regulatory requirements, as well as architectural qualities. Despite their importance, reference architectures still suffer from a number of open technical issues, including (i) the lack of a common interpretation, a precise notation for their representation and documentation, and (ii) the lack of conformance mechanisms for checking the compliance of concrete architectures to their related reference architecture, architectural decisions, regulatory requirements, etc. This paper addresses these two issues by introducing a model-driven approach that leverages (i) a domain-independent metamodel for the representation of reference architectures and (ii) the combination of model transformation and weaving techniques for the automatic conformance checking of concrete architectures. We evaluate the applicability, effectiveness, and generalizability of our approach using illustrative examples from the web browsers and automotive domains, including an assessment from an independent practitioner.

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“…14 AWS connected mobility-Reference architecture and architecture Fig. 15 Application of the proposed approach to the use case in Fig. 14…”

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“…In the last years, RAs have been successfully used across many industrial sectors such as automotive [13], avionics [14], and robotics [15]. Despite the relevance of RAs, several challenges are still plaguing their wide adoption [8].…”

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confidence: 99%