Workshop Theme

The race towards performance pushes robotic engineers to neglect software quality attributes of a robot controlsystem, such as maintainability, interoperability, scalability, and reusability. Software that is nicely encapsulatedoften simply runs slower than software that breaks encapsulation. Experience in software architecture design isabout knowing when to break encapsulation to make the code run faster, and when not to do that.

Consolidated software engineering techniques have proved their effectiveness in a variety of application domainsand could be adopted to build robotics systems more effective. On the other hand, robotics software development isa valuable benchmark to assess the power and discover the limits of advanced software engineering techniques whenused to design, implement, and test applications that control physical equipments interacting with the real world.The synergy between Robotics and Software Engineering is strategic. Their mutual benefit isn’t merely to makesoftware systems bigger, faster, cheaper, but rather to make it possible to build and evolve new software systems.

Submission Guidelines

We invite you to submit extended abstracts (two pages, excluding references) in pdf format through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsa23) by March 15h, 2023.

Contributions will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop’s theme. Theoretical and applied papers, as well as papers that capture best practices and lessons learned from field studies are encouraged. Submission of preliminary results would also be considered.

Authors of accepted abstracts will present their work at the workshop either as regular talks or as posters. As the workshop organizers are planning a special issue on robot software architectures, authors will be invited to submit a full paper on their work.

Submitting a contribution is not a prerequisite to participation in the workshop and the discussion sessions.

List of Topics

This workshop focuses on several topics closely related to robot software architectures, which include: 

• Analysis and comparisson of different architectural paradigms for functionalities integration from low level hardware control to high level AI reasoning
• Architectural models that lead to reusable robotic software design
• Analysis of issues and challenges in the design of robot software architectures
• Application of metrics to measure nun-functional properties (e.g., robustness, availability, etc.)
• Identification and description of structural and behavioral patterns and design principles in robot software architectures
• Description of lessons learned in the development and deployment of large-scale, real-world integratedrobot software architectures
• Tools and approaches for automatic validation and verification of robot software architectures
• Language- and model-based approaches for designing robot software architectures

Committees

Program Committee

• Charles Lesire - ONERA, France
• Luca Muratore - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
• Sebastian Wrede - CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Simos Gerasimou - University of York, UK
• Sven Peldszus - Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Organizing committee

• Davide Brugali
• Nico Hochgeschwender
• Luciana Rebelo

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to robotsoftwarearchitecture@gmail.com