A&P discipline

Error and Exception Handling and Fault Tolerance

Prevention, toleration, and processing of errors as well as dealing with exceptional conditions. This discipline corresponds to the Section 2.2.5 in the SWEBOK.

9 publications

Publications per development phase
  1. Scenario Building 1
  2. Functional Design 2
  3. Platform Building 0
  4. Capability Building 7
  5. System Deployment 0
  6. System Benchmarking 2
  7. Product Deployment 1
  8. Product Maintenance 3
Publications per year
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  3. 1995
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  5. 2005
  6. 2010
  7. 2015

Scenario Building

In the Scenario Building phase, environment features, constraints and characteristics are defined. Furthermore, the robot's task is defined. This includes the specification of customer acceptance tests to be performed in the specified and potentially generalized environment.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
knoop2007automatic Automatic robot programming from learned abstract task knowledgeIntelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Steffen Knoop, Michael Pardowitz, Rüdiger Dillmann 2007 unknown

Functional Design

In the Functional Design phase, hardware requirements and top-level functionalities are derived based on the scenario definition. Furthermore, top-level functionalities are decomposed and dependencies among them are identified. Also an initial functional design stating which functionalities interact with each other is developed.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
buch2014applying Applying Simulation and a Domain-Specific Language for an Adaptive Action LibrarySimulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots Jacob Pørksen Buch, Johan Sund Laursen, Lars Carøe Sørensen, Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Dirk Kraft, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Henrik Gordon Petersen 2014 (E)BNF unknown
ramirez2011automatic Automatic derivation of utility functions for monitoring software requirementsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Andres J Ramirez, Betty HC Cheng 2011 unknown

Capability Building

In the Capability Building phase, basic and composite components are constructed up to the application-level and constraints for their deployment are specified. This also includes the specification and eventually generation of additional knowledge required for component execution such as knowledge bases and training data.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
buch2014applying Applying Simulation and a Domain-Specific Language for an Adaptive Action LibrarySimulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots Jacob Pørksen Buch, Johan Sund Laursen, Lars Carøe Sørensen, Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Dirk Kraft, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Henrik Gordon Petersen 2014 (E)BNF unknown
de2007distributed Distributed watchpoints: Debugging large multi-robot systemsRobotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Michael De Rosa, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai, S Goldstein, Peter Lee, T Mowry 2007 (E)BNF unknown
fleury1994design Design of a modular architecture for autonomous robotRobotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on Sara Fleury, Matthieu Herrb, Raja Chatila 1994 unknown Lex, Yacc
joyeux2010managing Managing plans: Integrating deliberation and reactive execution schemesRobotics and Autonomous Systems Sylvain Joyeux, Frank Kirchner, Simon Lacroix 2010 unknown unknown
o2014automatic Automatic Verification of Autonomous Robot MissionsSimulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots Matthew O’Brien, Ronald C Arkin, Dagan Harrington, Damian Lyons, Shu Jiang 2014 unknown unknown
ramirez2011automatic Automatic derivation of utility functions for monitoring software requirementsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Andres J Ramirez, Betty HC Cheng 2011 unknown
steck2011managing Managing execution variants in task coordination by exploiting design-time models at run-timeIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Andreas Steck, Christian Schlegel 2011 internal (lisp)

System Benchmarking

In the System Benchmarking phase, certain test procedures targeting different quality attributes are performed such as stress testing, safety and security testing, reliability and durability testing, and performance testing.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
de2007distributed Distributed watchpoints: Debugging large multi-robot systemsRobotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Michael De Rosa, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai, S Goldstein, Peter Lee, T Mowry 2007 (E)BNF unknown
saglietti2016modeldriven Model-driven Structural and Statistical Testing of Robot Cooperation and ReconfigurationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering website Francesca Saglietti, Matthias Meitner 2016 unknown

Product Deployment

In the Product Deployment phase, an application is tailored to a specific robot system. This includes also the installation of maintenance instrumentation and a final target platform system testing.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
saglietti2016modeldriven Model-driven Structural and Statistical Testing of Robot Cooperation and ReconfigurationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering website Francesca Saglietti, Matthias Meitner 2016 unknown

Product Maintenance

In the Product Maintenance phase, the robot application is operated and maintained. This includes eventually the analysis of log files and the tuning of system parameters.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
de2007distributed Distributed watchpoints: Debugging large multi-robot systemsRobotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Michael De Rosa, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai, S Goldstein, Peter Lee, T Mowry 2007 (E)BNF unknown
ramirez2011automatic Automatic derivation of utility functions for monitoring software requirementsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Andres J Ramirez, Betty HC Cheng 2011 unknown
saglietti2016modeldriven Model-driven Structural and Statistical Testing of Robot Cooperation and ReconfigurationProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering website Francesca Saglietti, Matthias Meitner 2016 unknown