Programming by integration in robotics

Abstract

This document presents the first operating version of CoolBOT, a component oriented software framework for programming robotic systems. CoolBOT has been designed having in mind the idea of programming by integrating software components, in order to reduce the developing effort typically invested when programming robots. CoolBOT also fosters some interesting features, such as asynchronous execution, asynchronous inter communication, data-flow-driven processing, and cognizant failure systems. A simple demonstrator illustrates the benefits of using the proposed approach.