As robotic systems such as autonomous cars and delivery drones assume greater roles and
responsibilities within society, the likelihood and impact of catastrophic software failure …

Context: Robotics software architecture-based self-adaptive systems (RSASSs) are robotics
systems made robust to runtime uncertainty by adapting their software architectures. The …

Since it has often been claimed by academics that reconfiguration is essential, many
approaches to reconfiguration, especially of robotic systems, have been developed …

Autonomous robots operating in everyday environments, such as hospitals, private houses,
and public roads, are context-aware self-adaptive systems, ie they exploit knowledge about …

High-level deliberation in robotic systems has to handle three different but closely
interwoven aspects simultaneously: intended tasks, contingencies, and system-level errors …

Heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots offer a number of benefits for a variety of
applications. But deploying such robots is a complex task that requires machine …

Autonomous systems are now deployed for many applications to perform more and more
complex tasks in open environments. To manage complexity of their control software …

Robot software development can be considered as a component-driven process, and
existing ROS components, such as an ROS node, can be reused to construct robot …

Reusing ROS components, specifically ROS Nodes, is crucial for improving the efficiency
and quality of robotic software development. However, developers face challenges in finding …

Han pasado más de cuatro años desde que comencé mis estudios de doctorado. Durante
este tiempo, amigos y compañeros han contribuido, cada uno a su manera, en lo que soy y …