TOWARDS IMPROVING ROBOTIC SOFTWARE REUSABILITY WITHOUT LOSING REAL-TIME CAPABILITIES

Frederic Pont, Roland Siegwart

2004

Abstract

We aim at improving sharability and reusability of software for autonomous mobile robots without sacrificing real-time capabilities. As a first step towards this goal, we focus on real-time Linux and we introduce the concept of a robotic hardware abstraction layer that provides for software reusability on different types of hardware and in real-time or non real-time context. We also present a preliminary implementation using RTAI Linux on the tour-guiding robot RoboX.

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in Harvard Style

Pont F. and Siegwart R. (2004). TOWARDS IMPROVING ROBOTIC SOFTWARE REUSABILITY WITHOUT LOSING REAL-TIME CAPABILITIES . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 291-294. DOI: 10.5220/0001140102910294


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco04,
author={Frederic Pont and Roland Siegwart},
title={TOWARDS IMPROVING ROBOTIC SOFTWARE REUSABILITY WITHOUT LOSING REAL-TIME CAPABILITIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={291-294},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001140102910294},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - TOWARDS IMPROVING ROBOTIC SOFTWARE REUSABILITY WITHOUT LOSING REAL-TIME CAPABILITIES
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - Pont F.
AU - Siegwart R.
PY - 2004
SP - 291
EP - 294
DO - 10.5220/0001140102910294