RoboSeT: A Tool to Support Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems

Abstract

Abstract. Robotics has played an increasingly important role in several sectors of the society. Nowadays, robots are not only used to support activities in factories, but also to assist house cleaning, border surveillance, and even surgeries. The variety of application domains and the rising complexity are challenging the design of robotic systems that control such robots. In this perspective, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been adopted as a promising architectural style to design large, complex robotic systems in a flexible and reusable manner. Several Service-Oriented Robotic Systems (SORS) have been developed in the recent years and a large number of services are available for reuse. Nevertheless, none of the environments dedicated to the development of SORS provide an efficient mechanism for publishing and discovering services. As a consequence, services for SORS have to be manually searched, reducing significantly the potential of reuse and productivity provided by SOA. This paper presents RoboSeT, a mechanism that supports cataloging and discovery of services for robotic systems. RoboSeT is based on semantic search and classifies the services using a taxonomy of the robotics domain. Results of our case study indicate that RoboSeT facilitates the development of robotic systems, since it presents the potential to widely promote reusability of services for SORS.

Projeto arquitetural de sistemas robóticos orientados a serviços

“…Results of a survey applied to specialists in robotics indicate this taxonomy is comprehensive enough to classify services that can be used to develop SORS. The second work, published in (Oliveira et al, 2014b) and later extended in (Oliveira et al, 2015), presents the design and implementation of a tool that uses the taxonomy to enable publication, classification, and transparent discovery of services for SORS. Preliminary results of a case study suggest this tool facilitates 1.3.…”

“…The latter was awarded as one of the best papers of the symposium and the authors were invited to submit an extended version. The extended paper, entitled "RoboSeT: A Tool to Support Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems", will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series (Oliveira et al, 2015).…”

“…My contributions to each publication are listed as well. "RoboSeT: A Tool to Support Cataloging and Discovery of Services for Service-Oriented Robotic Systems" (accepted for publication) (Oliveira et al, 2015).…”