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Reusability Quality Metrics for Agent-Based Robot Systems

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Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 5 (RiTA 2017)

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Programming for robots is generally problem specific and components are not easily reused. Recently there has been push for robotics programming to integrate software engineering principles into the design and development to improve the reusability, however currently no metrics have been proposed to measure this quality in robotics. This paper proposes the use of reusability metrics from Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to measure reusability metrics, and finds that they are applicable to modular, agent-based robotics systems through a case study of an example system.

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  1. School of Information Communication and Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, QLD, Australia

    Cailen Robertson, Ryoma Ohira, Jun Jo & Bela Stantic

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Hyun Myung

  3. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Junmo Kim

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Weiliang Xu

  5. Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Eric T Matson

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jin-Woo Jung

  7. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Han-Lim Choi

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Robertson, C., Ohira, R., Jo, J., Stantic, B. (2019). Reusability Quality Metrics for Agent-Based Robot Systems. In: Kim, JH., et al. Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 5. RiTA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78452-6_12

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