2016/01/15 by Stefan Zander, Georg Heppner, Zander, Stefan +9 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Robotics (cs.RO) #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #cs.RO #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1601.03998
Presented at DSLRob 2015 (arXiv:1601.00877), Stefan Zander, Georg Heppner, Georg Neugschwandtner, Ramez Awad, Marc Essinger and Nadia Ahmed: A Model-Driven Engineering Approach for ROS using Ontological Semantics
arxiv created 2016/01/15 · openalex publication_date 2016/01/15 · arxiv updated 2016/01/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper presents a novel ontology-driven software engineering approach for the development of industrial robotics control software. It introduces the ReApp architecture that synthesizes model-driven engineering with semantic technologies to facilitate the development and reuse of ROS-based components and applications. In ReApp, we show how different ontological classification systems for hardware, software, and capabilities help developers in discovering suitable software components for their tasks and in applying them correctly. The proposed model-driven tooling enables developers to work at higher abstraction levels and fosters automatic code generation. It is underpinned by ontologies to minimize discontinuities in the development workflow, with an integrated development environment presenting a seamless interface to the user. First results show the viability and synergy of the selected approach when searching for or developing software with reuse in mind.