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Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots

4th International Conference, SIMPAR 2014, Bergamo, Italy, October 20-23, 2014. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8810)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): SIMPAR: International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots

Conference proceedings info: SIMPAR 2014.

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Table of contents (50 papers)

  1. Programming

    1. Structured Design and Development of Domain-Specific Languages in Robotics

      • Sven Schneider, Nico Hochgeschwender, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
      Pages 231-242
    2. ROS-I Interface for COMAU Robots

      • Stefano Michieletto, Elisa Tosello, Fabrizio Romanelli, Valentina Ferrara, Emanuele Menegatti
      Pages 243-254
    3. Robot Unit Testing

      • Andreas Bihlmaier, Heinz Wörn
      Pages 255-266
    4. IMI2S: A Lightweight Framework for Distributed Computing

      • Salvatore M. Anzalone, Marie Avril, Hanan Salam, Mohamed Chetouani
      Pages 267-278
    5. Are Middlewares Ready for Multi-robots Systems?

      • Stefan-Gabriel Chitic, Julien Ponge, Olivier Simonin
      Pages 279-290
  2. Architectures

    1. Declarative Specification of Robot Perception Architectures

      • Nico Hochgeschwender, Sven Schneider, Holger Voos, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
      Pages 291-302
    2. A Modeling Framework for Software Architecture Specification and Validation

      • Nicolas Gobillot, Charles Lesire, David Doose
      Pages 303-314
    3. Reverse Engineering of Middleware for Verification of Robot Control Architectures

      • Ali Khalili, Lorenzo Natale, Armando Tacchella
      Pages 315-326
    4. An Extensible Software Architecture for Composing Motion and Task Planners

      • Zakary Littlefield, Athanasios Krontiris, Andrew Kimmel, Andrew Dobson, Rahul Shome, Kostas E. Bekris
      Pages 327-339
    5. A Component-Based Meta-Model and Framework in the Model Driven Toolchain C-Forge

      • Francisco J. Ortiz, Diego Alonso, Francisca Rosique, Francisco Sánchez-Ledesma, Juan A. Pastor
      Pages 340-351
  3. Methods and Tools

    1. Merging Partially Consistent Maps

      • Taigo Maria Bonanni, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi
      Pages 352-363
    2. On the Benefits of Component-Defined Real-Time Visualization of Robotics Software

      • Max Reichardt, Gregor Zolynski, Michael Arndt, Karsten Berns
      Pages 376-387
    3. The Cognitive Interaction Toolkit – Improving Reproducibility of Robotic Systems Experiments

      • Florian Lier, Johannes Wienke, Arne Nordmann, Sven Wachsmuth, Sebastian Wrede
      Pages 400-411
    4. Team Size Optimization for Multi-robot Exploration

      • Zhi Yan, Luc Fabresse, Jannik Laval, Noury Bouraqadi
      Pages 438-449
    5. Automatic Evaluation of Task-Focused Parallel Jaw Gripper Design

      • Adam Wolniakowski, Konstantsin Miatliuk, Norbert Krüger, Jimmy Alison Rytz
      Pages 450-461
    6. Automatic Verification of Autonomous Robot Missions

      • Matthew O’Brien, Ronald C. Arkin, Dagan Harrington, Damian Lyons, Shu Jiang
      Pages 462-473

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, SIMPAR 2014, held in Bergamo, Italy, in October 2014.
The 49 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation, modeling, programming, architectures, methods and tools, and systems and applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

    Davide Brugali

  • Faculty EE-Math-CS, CTIT Institute, Robotics and Mechatronics Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Jan F. Broenink

  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Torsten Kroeger

  • Faculty of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Science Centre - Mathphysic, Level 2, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Bruce A. MacDonald

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