Automating Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

Abstract. Robots have supported several areas of society, making daily tasks easier and executing dangerous, complex activities. The increasing demand and complexity of these robots have challenged the design of robotic systems, i.e., the software systems that manage robots. In this context, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been pointed out as a promising architectural style to structure such systems, arising the Service-Oriented Robotic Systems (SORS). However, most of software architectures of SORS are still developed in an ad hoc manner. This lack of maturity reduces the potential of SOA in providing important quality attributes, such as reusability and maintainability, therefore affecting the overall quality of these systems. This paper presents ArchSORS, a systematic process that supports the design of software architectures for SORS. Experiment results have pointed out that ArchSORS can produce architectures with more quality, thus contributing to robotics and the areas of society that have gained with the use of robots.

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“…To support this activity, we established a taxonomy that lists a comprehensive set of service candidates for SORS [11].…”

Section: Phase Rsa-2: Robotic Capabilities Identificationmentioning

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Towards a Process to Design Architectures of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

Oliveira

Leroux

Felizardo

et al. 2014

Software Architecture

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“…Therefore, we proposed a taxonomy [31], which is a form of classification widely accepted in different domains, such as software architecture [10] and robotics [11]. This taxonomy of services is based on the SORS available in the literature [30], a set of reference architectures of robotics [12], and expertise and knowledge of specialists on how to develop robotic systems.…”

Section: A Taxonomy Of Services For Sorsmentioning

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“…A brief description of these groups of services and service types is presented as follows. For sake of space, the complete description of all groups and service types, as well as examples, is presented in another work [31].…”

Section: A Taxonomy Of Services For Sorsmentioning

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“…Service consumers use the classification available in the taxonomy to search for services that provide the functionalities they need. For instance, a consumer that needs a service for robotic localization based on a high precision GPS (Global Localization System) can search for a service whose type is "Service/Task/Localization/Non-probabilistic" (for more information about the types of services see [31]). This query would retrieve all services in the repository that provide a functionality of the Task type, related to Localization, and based solely on the information of a sensor, such as a GPS.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Using RoboSeT, robotics services are classified according to a common-sense taxonomy of services for SORS [31] and can be searched using semantic information. These services can be transparently discovered by other developers and integrated into different development environments.…”

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RoboSeT: A Tool to Support Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

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Abstract. Robotics has played an increasingly important role in several sectors of the society. Nowadays, robots are not only used to support activities in factories, but also to assist house cleaning, border surveillance, and even surgeries. The variety of application domains and the rising complexity are challenging the design of robotic systems that control such robots. In this perspective, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been adopted as a promising architectural style to design large, complex robotic systems in a flexible and reusable manner. Several Service-Oriented Robotic Systems (SORS) have been developed in the recent years and a large number of services are available for reuse. Nevertheless, none of the environments dedicated to the development of SORS provide an efficient mechanism for publishing and discovering services. As a consequence, services for SORS have to be manually searched, reducing significantly the potential of reuse and productivity provided by SOA. This paper presents RoboSeT, a mechanism that supports cataloging and discovery of services for robotic systems. RoboSeT is based on semantic search and classifies the services using a taxonomy of the robotics domain. Results of our case study indicate that RoboSeT facilitates the development of robotic systems, since it presents the potential to widely promote reusability of services for SORS.

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A Preliminary Study on Architecting Cyber-Physical Systems

Malavolta

Muccini

Sharaf

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

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Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are deemed as the key enablers of next generation applications. Needless to say, the design, verification and validation of cyber-physical systems reaches unprecedented levels of complexity, specially due to their sensibility to safety issues. Under this perspective, leveraging architectural descriptions to reason on a CPS seems to be the obvious way to manage its inherent complexity. A body of knowledge on architecting CPSs has been proposed in the past years. Still, the trends of research on architecting CPS is unclear. In order to shade some light on the state-of-the art in architecting CPS, this paper presents a preliminary study on the challenges, goals, and solutions reported so far in architecting CPSs.

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Automating Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

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Towards a Process to Design Architectures of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

Towards a Process to Design Architectures of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

RoboSeT: A Tool to Support Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

A Preliminary Study on Architecting Cyber-Physical Systems

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