DDS is a recent specification aimed at providing high-performance publisher/subscriber
middleware solutions. Despite being a very powerful flexible technology, it may prove
complex to use, especially for the inexperienced. This work provides some guidelines for
connecting software components that represent a new generation of automation devices
(such as PLCs, IPCs and robots) using Data Distribution Service (DDS) as a virtual software
bus. More specifically, it presents the design of a DDS-based component, the so-called …