A&P discipline

Families of Programs and Frameworks

Software product lines or Frameworks encapsulating commonalities among elements and targeting re-use by designing customizable components that account for variability. This discipline corresponds to the Section 2.3.5 in the SWEBOK.

7 publications

Publications per development phase
  1. Scenario Building 3
  2. Functional Design 6
  3. Platform Building 2
  4. Capability Building 5
  5. System Deployment 1
  6. System Benchmarking 0
  7. Product Deployment 1
  8. Product Maintenance 2
Publications per year
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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
Ciccozzi2016Adopting Adopting MDE for Specifying and Executing Civilian Missions of Mobile Multi-Robot SystemsJournal of IEEE Access website Federico Ciccozzi, Davide Di Ruscio, Ivano Malavolta, Patrizio Pelliccione 2016 FLYAQ, Eclipse Virgo, Eclipse Modeling Framework
Detzner2019Novel A Novel Task Language for Natural Interaction in Human-Robot Systems for Warehouse Logistics2019 14th International Conference on Computer Science Education (ICCSE) Peter Detzner, Thomas Kirks, Jana Jost 2019 ANTLR custom (python-based)
gritzner2018synthesizing Synthesizing Executable PLC Code for Robots from Scenario-Based GR(1) SpecificationsSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations website Daniel Gritzner, Joel Greenyer 2018 ScenarioTools

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
Ciccozzi2016Adopting Adopting MDE for Specifying and Executing Civilian Missions of Mobile Multi-Robot SystemsJournal of IEEE Access website Federico Ciccozzi, Davide Di Ruscio, Ivano Malavolta, Patrizio Pelliccione 2016 FLYAQ, Eclipse Virgo, Eclipse Modeling Framework
Detzner2019Novel A Novel Task Language for Natural Interaction in Human-Robot Systems for Warehouse Logistics2019 14th International Conference on Computer Science Education (ICCSE) Peter Detzner, Thomas Kirks, Jana Jost 2019 ANTLR custom (python-based)
fleurey2009domain A domain specific modeling language supporting specification, simulation and execution of dynamic adaptive systemsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg 2009 ecore GMF
gherardi2014modeling Modeling and reusing robotic software architectures: the hyperflex toolchainRobotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on Luca Gherardi, Davide Brugali 2014 ecore EMF/GMF
gritzner2018synthesizing Synthesizing Executable PLC Code for Robots from Scenario-Based GR(1) SpecificationsSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations website Daniel Gritzner, Joel Greenyer 2018 ScenarioTools
hochgeschwender2013model A model-based approach to software deployment in roboticsIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Gherardi, Azamat Shakhirmardanov, Gerhard K Kraetzschmar, Davide Brugali, Herman Bruyninckx 2013 ecore xtext

Platform Building

In the Platform Building phase, the robot hardware is determined. This includes the selection and potential configuration of robot's sensors and actuators meeting the requirements defined in the functional design phase.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
gritzner2018synthesizing Synthesizing Executable PLC Code for Robots from Scenario-Based GR(1) SpecificationsSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations website Daniel Gritzner, Joel Greenyer 2018 ScenarioTools
ramaswamy2014solution Solution space modeling for robotic systemsJournal for Software Engineering Robotics (JOSER) Arun Kumar Ramaswamy, Bruno Monsuez, Adriana Tapus 2014 ecore EMF/GMF

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
fleurey2009domain A domain specific modeling language supporting specification, simulation and execution of dynamic adaptive systemsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg 2009 ecore GMF
gherardi2014modeling Modeling and reusing robotic software architectures: the hyperflex toolchainRobotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on Luca Gherardi, Davide Brugali 2014 ecore EMF/GMF
gritzner2018synthesizing Synthesizing Executable PLC Code for Robots from Scenario-Based GR(1) SpecificationsSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations website Daniel Gritzner, Joel Greenyer 2018 ScenarioTools
hochgeschwender2013model A model-based approach to software deployment in roboticsIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Gherardi, Azamat Shakhirmardanov, Gerhard K Kraetzschmar, Davide Brugali, Herman Bruyninckx 2013 ecore xtext
ramaswamy2014solution Solution space modeling for robotic systemsJournal for Software Engineering Robotics (JOSER) Arun Kumar Ramaswamy, Bruno Monsuez, Adriana Tapus 2014 ecore EMF/GMF

System Deployment

In the System Deployment phase, top-level component(s) are packaged into a complete application system which defines a mapping of components and composites to computational units. Furthermore, features and procedures for system launch management are developed.

KeyTitleAuthorsYear FormalismTool
hochgeschwender2013model A model-based approach to software deployment in roboticsIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Nico Hochgeschwender, Luca Gherardi, Azamat Shakhirmardanov, Gerhard K Kraetzschmar, Davide Brugali, Herman Bruyninckx 2013 ecore xtext

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
fleurey2009domain A domain specific modeling language supporting specification, simulation and execution of dynamic adaptive systemsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg 2009 ecore GMF

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
Ciccozzi2016Adopting Adopting MDE for Specifying and Executing Civilian Missions of Mobile Multi-Robot SystemsJournal of IEEE Access website Federico Ciccozzi, Davide Di Ruscio, Ivano Malavolta, Patrizio Pelliccione 2016 FLYAQ, Eclipse Virgo, Eclipse Modeling Framework
fleurey2009domain A domain specific modeling language supporting specification, simulation and execution of dynamic adaptive systemsModel Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Franck Fleurey, Arnor Solberg 2009 ecore GMF