"Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics" collects contributions that describe the state of the art in software development for the Robotics domain. It reports on innovative ideas that are progressively introduced in the software development process, in order to promote the reuse of robotic software artifacts: domain engineering, components, frameworks and architectural styles. It illustrates the results of the most successful and well-known research projects which aim to develop reusable robotic software systems. Most of the chapters report on concepts and ideas discussed at the well attended ICRA2005 Workshop on "Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics", Barcelona, Spain, April 18 2005. The authors are recognised as leading scholars internationally, and the result is an effective blend of fundamental and innovative results on research and development in software for robotic systems, where one common factor is the integration of reusable building blocks. Besides the advancement in the field, most contributions survey the state of the art, report a number of practical applications to real systems, and discuss possible future developments.

Recent advances in Robot Software Engineering Outcome of a well-attended workshop on "Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics", Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2005

Inhalt
Robot Software: Principles and Challenges.- Trends in Robot Software Domain Engineering.- Stable Analysis Patterns for Robot Mobility.- The CLARAty Project: Coping with Hardware and Software Heterogeneity.- Simulation and Testbeds of Autonomous Robots in Harsh Environments.- Writing Code in the Field: Implications for Robot Software Development.- Software Environments for Robot Programming.- Sidebar Programming Commercial Robots.- Component-Based Robotics.- Trends in Component-Based Robotics.- CoolBOT: A Component Model and Software Infrastructure for Robotics.- ROCI: Strongly Typed Component Interfaces for Multi-robot Teams Programming.- Communication Patterns as Key Towards Component Interoperability.- Using MARIE for Mobile Robot Component Development and Integration.- Orca: A Component Model and Repository.- Sidebar Software Architectures.- Robotic Software Frameworks.- Trends in Robotic Software Frameworks.- Reusable Robot Software and the Player/Stage Project.- An Integration Framework for Developing Interactive Robots.- Increasing Decoupling in the Robotics4.NET Framework.- VIP: The Video Image Processing Framework Based on the MIRO Middleware.- MRT: Robotics Off-the-Shelf with the Modular Robotic Toolkit.- Towards Framework-Based U×V Software Systems: An Applied Research Perspective.- Sidebar Middlewares for Distributed Computing.- Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Trends in Software Environments for Networked Robotics.- Advanced Teleoperation Architecture.- A Multi-robot-Multi-operator Collaborative Virtual Environment.- Modularity and Mobility of Distributed Control Software for Networked Mobile Robots.- Sidebar Java3D for Web-Based Robot Control.