Developing autonomous mobile robots for complex service robot applications or large sensor networks for ambient intelligence scenarios is a very difficult and time-consuming process. Some reasons are the heterogeneity and interface complexity of the underlying hardware, the inherent distributedness of these applications, and the need to integrate a large variety of widely differing computational models and approaches. Testing, debugging, and experimentally evaluating such applications is very difficult. As a consequence, their development and maintenance is tedious and error-prone. In order to remedy these problems, we are developing the object-oriented middleware Miro (Middleware for Robots). The talk presents the architecture of Miro and explains some components in more detail. The implementation status of Miro and practical experiences gained with it will also be explained. Finally, we highlight some of the current research directions and their relationship to research topics currently pursued by the research community.
Sprecher: Dr.-Ing. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Wann: Freitag, 28. Juli 2006, 08:00 Uhr (s.t.) Wo: Hörsaal B, Universität Klagenfurt