Component-Based Robotic Engineering (Part II)

This article discusses the role of software components as architectural units of large, possibly distributed, software-intensive robotic systems. The focus is on technologies to manage the heterogeneity of hardware, computational, and communication resources and on design techniques to assemble components into systems .A component-based system is a composition of components, and the way components interact with other components and with the computational environment greatly affects the flexibility of the entire system and the reusability of individual functionality.