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This paper presents the experience of Uninova on the European Commission’s (EC) ESPRIT III project 6660 — RoadRobot — Operator Assisted Mobile Road Robot for Heavy Duty Civil Engineering Applications.
The objective of RoadRobot (currently on its fourth and last year) is the development of a generic multipurpose control architecture for integrated outdoor building sites composed by mobile heavy-duty platforms. This architecture is demonstrated by applying it to road building. The experience on the definition of the hardware and software architecture capable of supporting this type of applications is presented and the data modelling, supported by ISO 10303 — STEP, is then summarised.
Some focus is put on the Uninova’s STEP-based Integration Platform, which is the tool used to facilitate the task of integrating the RoadRobot’s heterogeneous software packages.
The paper concludes with a brief presentation of the relevant results of the project.
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Joäo Paulo Pimentäo, Assistant at the Dep. of Elec. Engineering of the FCT/UNL and Researcher at Uninova; Computer Engineering degree (CED) and MSc (1994) in Computer Engineering by FCT/UNL.
Ricardo Jardim Gonçalves, Researcher at Uninova; BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, CED by FCT/UNL. Currently pursuing MSc in Operative Research and System Engineering at the Technical Univ. of Lisbon.
Teresa Gonçalves, Researcher at Uninova; CED by FCT/UNL, currently pursuing MSc in Computer Engineering by FCT/UNL
Helder Silva, Researcher at Uninova; BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications by the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, is concluding his degree in Systems and Telecommunications at the same school.
Miguel Vital and Pedro Sousa, Researchers at Uninova; BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications by the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon; have recently concluded their CED by FCT/UNL.
Adolfo Steiger Garçäo, Full professor at the Dep. of Elec. Engineering of the FCT/UNL, President of Uninova and Director of Uninova’s Intelligent Robotics Centre. Responsible for several international research projects and over 100 National and international publications.
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Pimentão, J.P. et al. (1996). The RoadRobot project: from theory to practice in systems integration. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Balanced Automation Systems II. BASYS 1996. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35065-3_12
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