Description
Modern Software Engineering approaches are often overlooked in the development and deployment of robotic systems. The design and application of specialised Software Engineering techniques that facilitate use by roboticists has attracted significant interest in the research community. It is an area of emerging technology that is now pursued around the world. Significant results are available across a wide spectrum of approaches: domain-specific modelling languages, model-based engineering techniques, automation of simulation and testing, validation and verification via mathematical proof, development and enhancement of middleware, runtime verification, and many others. Robotics and Software Engineering are currently very lively areas of research: they are both working on advanced approaches to enable the development of advanced and trustworthy robotics systems for the benefit of our society. Autonomy poses major challenges. They range from the social aspects (legal, ethical, cultural, and so on) involved in dealing with a robotic system designed using sophisticated software, to verification techniques particularly suited for dealing with artificial intelligence techniques. This special issue provides a snapshot of the current state of the art in this exciting area. Most roboticists will recognize that the traditional programming approach, based on a testing campaign characterized by trial-and-error efforts using the deployed system, is not effective. It is expensive, and many times, restricted when the target environment is not easily accessed or reproduced, without providing concrete evidence of required properties. This special issue shows that there are exciting and important alternatives. It is an effort to bring together the Robotics and Software Engineering communities, to foster dissemination and collaboration to advance the state of the art and transform the state of practice in Software Engineering for Robotics.| Period | 3 Dec 2021 → 1 Apr 2024 |
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| Type of journal | Journal |
| ISSN | 0921-8890 |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- robotics
- autonomous systems
- software engineering