[en] Service robots, a type of robots that perform useful tasks for humans, are foreseen to be broadly used in the near future in both social and industrial scenarios. Those robots will be required to operate in dynamic environments, collaborating among them or with users. Specifying the list of requested
tasks to be achieved by a robotic team is far from being trivial. Therefore, mission specification languages and tools need to be expressive enough to allow the specification of complex missions (e.g., detailing recovery actions), while being reachable by domain experts who might not be knowledgeable of programming languages. To support domain experts, we developed PROMISE, a Domain-Specific Language that allows mission specification for multiple robots in a user-friendly,
yet rigorous manner. PROMISE is built as an Eclipse plugin that provides a textual and a graphical interface for mission specification. Our tool is in turn integrated into a software framework, which provides functionalities as: (1) automatic generation from specification, (2) sending of missions to the
robotic team; and (3) interpretation and management of missions during execution time. PROMISE and its framework implementation have been validated through simulation and real-world experiments with four different robotic models.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
García, Sergio; Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Pelliccione, Patrizio; Chalmers | University of Gothenburg and University of L’Aquila
MENGHI, Claudio ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SVV
Berger, Thorsten; Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
Bures, Tomas; Charles University
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
PROMISE: high-level mission specification for multiple robots
Publication date :
June 2020
Event name :
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Companion Proceedings
Event date :
2020
Main work title :
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): Companion Proceedings
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Security, Reliability and Trust
European Projects :
H2020 - 694277 - TUNE - Testing the Untestable: Model Testing of Complex Software-Intensive Systems