Architecture and applications of the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair

Röfer, Th.; Lankenau, Axel

doi:10.1016/s0020-0255(00)00020-7

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“…This compensatory aspect is achieved through the environmental control function, whose role is to act on common environmental devices, such as doors, phones or lights. An ATS can also improve communication possibilities through user specific interfaces [3] and achieve autonomous or semi-automonous navigation through environmental navigation features, mostly using autonomous wheelchairs [2]. All these features can be combined to achieve smart homes [9,10].…”

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Architecture and models of the DANAH assistive system

Lankri

Berruet

Rossi

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Services Integration in Pervasive Environments

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International audienceIn this paper we present DANAH, an assistive system under development at the Lab-STICC laboratory at the European University of Brittany, in collaboration with the Kerpape center for functional reeducation and readaptation in Lorient. DANAH aims to be an almost all-in-one assistive system (ATS) which combines existing technologies to deliver suitable assistance for the disabled and the elderly. It focuses on both environmental control as well as navigation to help the physically impaired to perform everyday tasks and maintain a reasonable level of autonomy. Moreover, rapid prototyping methods have been introduced to speed up development, reduce costs and enforce ATS adoption

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Architecture and models of the DANAH assistive system

Lankri

Berruet

Rossi

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Services Integration in Pervasive Environments

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“…A number of commercialized service robots have recently been introduced, such as vacuum cleaning robots, home security robots, entertainment robots, guide robots, etc. [5,6,7].…”

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“…These two aspects of a robot, its mechanical aspect (including its sensors and actuators) and its control logic are intrinsically interdependent. Robots are embedded systems, complex and reactive, where the new way of building their control software is centered on the design of the software architecture as a combination of software entities, allowing for reuse and reasoning about system properties before its implementation [6,8]. Software architecture is represented by an architecture description language, highlighting various system properties allowing for analyzing and evaluating trade-offs among alternative solutions [9].…”

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A Software Architecture Framework for Home Service Robots

Kimour¹,

Bessam²,

Boudour³

2009

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Over the last years, home service robots have a wide range of potential applications, such as home security, patient caring, cleaning, etc. When developing robot software, one of the main challenges is to build the software architectural model. Software architecture is used throughout the software life-cycle for supporting analysis, guiding development, and acting as a roadmap for designers and implementers. Though many software architectures for robotic systems have been defined, none of them have reached all its objectives due to the great variability among systems behaviors, and still lack of systematic techniques to derive the robot software architecture from its requirements model. In this paper, we present a generic architectural model for home service robots, allowing for software architecture design, and preserving a continuous architectural view all along the development cycle. While avoiding the predominant decomposition problems, our approach allows for integration of the architectural components in a systematic and comprehensive way for efficient maintainability and reusability.

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“…As a result, some issues become very important, such as safety, stability, smooth driving, and higher maneuverability, generally due to nonstructured environments. Many references can be found in the literature about research projects leading to experimental prototypes, such as OMNI, Hoyer et al (1997), SIAMO, Mazo et al (2002), VAHM, Bourhis & Agostini (1998), TetraNauta, Civit (1998), BREMEN, Rofer & Lankenau (1998), and SENARIO, Katevas et al (1997).…”

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