SmartSoft

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain

Components and Toolchain for Robotics

Latest News

20/03/2012

New video of SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain

27/02/2012

New video: The butler scenario.

06/10/2011

A new section demonstrates the creation and usage of Gateway components.

09/09/2011

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain 0.10.4 released. Components update released. New Videos available.

05/05/2011

New video of our robot "Kate" cleaning up the table.

29/04/2011

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.8.0 is available on Sourceforge. Technical reports available.

27/04/2011

Switch to Model Driven Software Development for all published SmartSoft components and communication objects. Many new components published. Getting-Startet-Tutorial added. Toolchain 0.10.2 released.

16/09/2010

Description of several components and their services added.

13/08/2010

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.7.2 is available on Sourceforge. ACE / SmartSoft on Sourceforge

27/07/2010

SIMPAR 2010: Tutorial on "Model-Driven Software Development in Robotics"

26/05/2010

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain version 0.8.0 released. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

09/09/2009

The new VMWare Image of SmartSoft including the SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain is available for download. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

Model Driven Software Development for Robotics

Engineering the software development process in robotics is one of the basic necessities towards industrial-strength service robotics systems. A major challenge is to make the step from code-driven designs towards model-driven systems. The foundation for a model-driven software development approach (MDSD) in robotics shall be laid by a domain specific language that is defined as a UML profile and that is implemented in a MDSD tool chain.

A strict component based approach separates middleware aspects from algorithmic solutions and is thus essential towards reuse and composability of software building blocks. A special focus is put on service-oriented architectures for service robotics on top of QoS-middleware.