Developing software for mobile robot applications is a tedious and error-prone task. Modern
mobile robot systems are distributed systems, and their designs exhibit large heterogeneity …

Research on execution monitoring in its own is still not very common within the field of
robotics and autonomous systems. It is more common that researchers interested in control …

Architectures form the backbone of complete robotic systems. The right choice of
architecture can go a long way in facilitating the specification, implementation and validation …

This paper presents a software framework called AROCCAM that was developed to design
and implement data fusion applications. This architecture permits to build applications in a …

Presents vision functions needed on a mobile robot to deal with landmark-based navigation
in buildings. Landmarks are planar, quadrangular surfaces, which must be distinguished …

European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, has started a program to develop the largest aircraft
ever built, the Airbus A380, which would be able to carry between 550 to 800 passengers on …

Complex artifacts are designed today from well specified and well modeled components. But
most often, the models of these components cannot be composed into a global functional …

Service robots which act in environments populated by humans have become very popular
in the last few years. A variety of systems exists which act for example in hospitals, office …

Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low
cost. However, programming such robots for specific tasks, with hundreds of modules and …

In order to enable robot controllers to reason about and manipulate themselves, large
fractions of the controllers have to be implemented as plans. Plans are symbolic …