APICES-rapid application development with graph pattern

Bredenfeld, Ansgar

doi:10.1109/iwrsp.1998.676664

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“…One of the specific strengths of OUT environment is its support of graph-based tool structures. We reported on this feature in previous work [3][4]. In this paper, we concentrate on the development process of a co-design tool.…”

Section: Apices (To Lower Behaviors) Elementary Behaviors Turn 1 +Urnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Co-design tool construction using APICES

Bredenfeld

1999

Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign - CODES '99

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In this paper, we present our approach to automate the development process of co-design tools. We demonstrate with a non-trivial real world example how we can accelerate the tool design process using the software prototyping environment APICES.In a very short time we constructed the tool Dual Dynamics Designer (DDD) which supports a novel methodology in robot software development. DDD allows to edit a complex differential equation-based specification of dynamic robot behavior via an intuitive graphical interface and automatically generates microcontroller code in C as well as a simulation model in Java from it.Speed-up of the tool design process is primarily achieved by a rigorous top-down tool modeling approach in combination with a highly configurable tool frame generator.

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Section: Apices (To Lower Behaviors) Elementary Behaviors Turn 1 +Urnmentioning

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“…We demonstrate that the UML-based software prototyping environment APICES [3][4] allows to design co-design tools within a very short time.…”

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Co-design tool construction using APICES

Bredenfeld

1999

Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign - CODES '99

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“…In addition, this prototyping has to be performed under hard time constraints due to time-to-market requirements. In previous work [2] [3], we already presented that model-based generative prototyping allows to construct new design tools from scratch very fast and effectively using our prototyping environment APICES. We demonstrated this -among others -by way of Dual Dynamics Designer, a tool for behavior-oriented robot software synthesis.…”

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Integration and evolution of model-based tool prototypes

Bredenfeld

Proceedings 11th International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping. RSP 2000. Shortening the Path From Specification to Protot

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The design of complex real-time systems -in our case an autonomous mobile robot [1] -is particularly demanding with respect to hardware and software prototyping. In this paper, we focus on the software aspect. Software prototyping is required if new techniques, methodologies or approaches come into play. Their novelty usually calls for new tools. In addition, this prototyping has to be performed under hard time constraints due to time-to-market requirements. In previous work [2][3], we already presented that model-based generative prototyping allows to construct new design tools from scratch very fast and effectively using our prototyping environment APICES. We demonstrated this -among others -by way of Dual Dynamics Designer, a tool for behavior-oriented robot software synthesis. In this paper, we focus on two fields of important problems of software prototyping: integration of prototypes into design environments and evolution of prototypes from first solutions towards full-fledged design tools.The first problem is the integration of the prototype into a design environment which has to be taken into account very early in the course of the design process in order to achieve integrated solutions. A crucial question that has to be answered is how to construct and maintain the prototype interfaces to other tools within a design environment. In this paper, we introduce LQWHJUDWLRQ FODVVHV They provide a model-based specification, implementation and customization strategy for prototype interfaces.The second aspect we discuss is the evolution of our prototypes. The inherent problem with tools for new approaches such as Dual Dynamics [4] is that there is no design experience available for these tools. Development directions, design problems and the exact functionality of the new tool are not known in advance. These factors evolve over time and are strongly influenced by pilot users working with early prototypes of the new tool. The problem is even more complex in a design environment which has to be kept running while its tools are continuously changing. In this paper, we show how -in conjunction with explicit interface modeling -our prototyping approach facilitates incremental design and allows to develop prototypes step by step without impairing a productive design environment. This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 gives a short introduction and overview of Dual Dynamics Designer which we use as our example. Section 3 describes how DD-Designer is embedded in our design environment for robot software. Section 4 introduces LQWHJUDWLRQ FODVVHVour approach to integrate the prototypes into design environments. Section 5 shows how our methodology supports the evolution of prototypes. Section 6 discusses results and puts our work into perspective to related work. In conclusion, the paper gives a brief outlook towards future work.'XDO '\QDPLFV 'HVLJQHUThe Dual Dynamics (DD) scheme [4] is a mathematical model of a behavior system for autonomous mobile robots. It has grown from three roots: the behavior-based approach ...

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“…We have extended the rapid prototyping environment APICES [4][5] to support model based multi-level prototyping as described in the previous sections. We added the modelling construct "model level" to the meta model of APICES and extended the model editor as well as the code generators.…”

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Model based multi-level prototyping

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Proceedings Tenth IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping. Shortening the Path From Specification to Prototype

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In this paper, we present our approach to rapid prototyping of robot software. We propose model based multi-level prototyping using UML in combination with a refinement design flow to synchronize development of an early virtual prototype, detailed simulation models and the final real prototype. This is achieved by a core model which is the common reference for model based multi-level prototyping. We demonstrate our methodology at hand of the design of a motor control software for the RoboCup robot platform of GMD. We show that parameters obtained with the virtual prototype and tested in the simulation model are well suited estimations for the final real prototype and therefore allow to reduce time-consuming experiments with the real prototype to a minimum. Dqpv

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APICES-rapid application development with graph pattern

Cited by 7 publications

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Co-design tool construction using APICES

Co-design tool construction using APICES

Integration and evolution of model-based tool prototypes

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