COMPONENT RUNTIME SELF-ADAPTATION IN ROBOTICS

Daniel Hernandez, Antonio Dominguez, Oscar Deniz, Jorge Cabrera

2005

Abstract

Mobile robotic applications have to deal with limited resources and variable execution conditions that must be appropriately managed in order to keep an acceptable system behavior. This requires the implementation of runtime adaptation mechanisms that monitor continuously system state and module the resulting performance as a function of the available resources. As we consider that these adaptation mechanisms should be offered as a facility to robotic application programmers, we have integrated them inside CoolBOT, a component oriented framework for programming robotic systems. CoolBOT contributes to reduce the programming effort, promoting code reuse, while the adaptation scheme allows for more robust applications with an extended range of operation. In this paper we also present a demonstrator that outlines the benefits of using the proposed approach in the development of real robotic applications.

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in Harvard Style

Hernandez D., Dominguez A., Deniz O. and Cabrera J. (2005). COMPONENT RUNTIME SELF-ADAPTATION IN ROBOTICS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-30-9, pages 399-402. DOI: 10.5220/0001166403990402


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco05,
author={Daniel Hernandez and Antonio Dominguez and Oscar Deniz and Jorge Cabrera},
title={COMPONENT RUNTIME SELF-ADAPTATION IN ROBOTICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2005},
pages={399-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001166403990402},
isbn={972-8865-30-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - COMPONENT RUNTIME SELF-ADAPTATION IN ROBOTICS
SN - 972-8865-30-9
AU - Hernandez D.
AU - Dominguez A.
AU - Deniz O.
AU - Cabrera J.
PY - 2005
SP - 399
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0001166403990402