Software Engineering for Robotics

The topics covered in this book range from modeling and programming languages and environments, via approaches for design and verification, to issues of ethics and regulation. In terms of techniques, there are results on model-based engineering, product lines, mission specification, component-based development, simulation, testing, and proof. Applications range from manufacturing to service robots, to autonomous vehicles, and even robots than evolve in the real world. A final chapter summarizes issues on ethics and regulation based on discussions from a panel of experts.

Software Product Line Engineering for Robotics.- Towards Autonomous Robot Evolution.- Composition, Separation of Roles and Model-Driven Approaches as Enabler of a Robotics Software Ecosystem.- Testing Industrial Robotic Systems: A New Battlefield!.- Gaining Confidence in the Trustworthiness of Robotic and Autonomous Systems.- Robot Accident Investigation: A Case Study in Responsible Robotics.- Verifiable Autonomy and Responsible Robotics.- Verification of Autonomous Robots: A Roboticist's Bottom-Up Approach?.- RoboStar Technology: A Roboticist's Toolbox for Combined Proof, Simulation, and Testing.- CorteX: A software Framework for Interoperable, Plug-and-Play, Distributed, Robotic Systems-of-Systems.- Mutation Testing for RoboChart.- Languages for Specifying Missions of Robotic Applications.- RoboStar Technology: Modelling Uncertainty in RoboChart using Probability.- Panel Discussion: Regulation and Ethics of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.