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Robotics has emerged as one of the most prominent research areas in the last years. To cope with the great variety of robots application areas, as well as the heterogeneity of the robots, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been adopted to develop robotic systems, i.e., the software systems that manage the robots. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies that provide an updated, fair overview of the development of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems (SORS), i.e., software systems composed by services. The main contribution of this paper is to present a detailed, analytical panorama of SORS, their implementation technologies, and software engineering guidelines that support development of such systems. For this, we have applied steps of the systematic review technique. As main results, we have observed that, in spite of relevant contributions already found in this area, it is still necessary considerable efforts to consolidate the research in SORS. Furthermore, we intend that this work makes also possible to identify important research topics for future research.

Software-intensive systems have become increasingly large and complex and new techniques and methodologies are necessary to deal with such complexity. Model-Driven Development (MDD) has been used to deal with complex scenarios, since software models, despite details, facilitate the visualization of the whole. Moreover, MDD has been widely recognized as a way to assure quality, reducing time and effort, and making possible the automatic transformation of models to generate source code. In this direction, software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SoS) is a class of software systems that have emerged over the iminence of large systems which have a high-level of complexity. Considering the success of MDD in other areas, we decided to investigate how MDD has been used in the context of SoS. This paper presents results of a Systematic Literature Review conducted to scrutinize and bring to light the state of the art in the field of MDD for SoS. Besides that, we discuss future research directions and perspectives, aiming at contributing to the development of SoS.

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