TY - GEN
T1 - Middleware for robotics
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2008
AU - Mohamed, Nader
AU - Al-Jaroodi, Jameela
AU - Jawhar, Imad
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress in these fields, robots can offer a wide range of applications. However real world integration and application development for such a distributed system composed of many robotic modules and networked robotic devices is very difficult. Therefore, middleware services provide a novel approach offering many possibilities and drastically enhancing the application development for robots. This paper surveys the current state of middleware approaches in this domain. It discusses middleware challenges in these systems and presents some representative middleware solutions specifically designed for robots. The selection of the studied methods tries to cover most of the middleware platforms, objectives and approaches that have been proposed by researchers in this field.
AB - The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress in these fields, robots can offer a wide range of applications. However real world integration and application development for such a distributed system composed of many robotic modules and networked robotic devices is very difficult. Therefore, middleware services provide a novel approach offering many possibilities and drastically enhancing the application development for robots. This paper surveys the current state of middleware approaches in this domain. It discusses middleware challenges in these systems and presents some representative middleware solutions specifically designed for robots. The selection of the studied methods tries to cover most of the middleware platforms, objectives and approaches that have been proposed by researchers in this field.
KW - Middleware
KW - Robot system integration
KW - Robots
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U2 - 10.1109/RAMECH.2008.4681485
DO - 10.1109/RAMECH.2008.4681485
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58049094821
SN - 9781424416769
T3 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2008
SP - 736
EP - 742
BT - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2008
Y2 - 21 September 2008 through 24 September 2008
ER -