Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and
in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the …

The design, simulation and programming of robotics systems is challenging as expertise
from multiple domains needs to be integrated conceptually and technically. Domain-specific …

Establishing mobile manipulation as a powerful key technology for the cognitive factory
requires mobile manipulation platforms, which at the same time pay attention to industrial …

Robot software systems tend to be complex. This complexity is due, in large part, to the need
to control diverse sensors and actuators in real time, in the face of significant uncertainty and …

Robots artificially replicate human capabilities thanks to their software, the main
embodiment of intelligence. However, engineering robotics software has become …

While collaborative robots have made headlines through recent industrial applications, they
are not as widespread in industry as it may seem. The authors of this paper believe that one …

Sensing, planning, controlling, and reasoning, are human-like capabilities that can be
artificially replicated in an autonomous robot. Such a robot implements data structures and …

This paper presents the Robotics Code Generator (RobCoGen), an open source program
that can generate an efficient implementation of rigid body dynamics and kinematics …

Robot application development is gaining increasing attention both from the research and
industry communities. Robots are complex cyber-physical and safety-critical systems with …

Engineering software for robotics applications requires multi-domain solutions. Model-driven
development (MDD) promises efficient means for developing domain-specific and reusable …