Software Engineering for Robotics: Future Research Directions; Report from the 2023 Workshop on Software Engineering for Robotics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12317v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:21:44 GMT
• Title: Software Engineering for Robotics: Future Research Directions; Report from the 2023 Workshop on Software Engineering for Robotics
• Authors: Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University), Sebastian Elbaum (University of Virginia), David Anthony (Southwest Research Institute), Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University), Mauricio Castillo-Effen (Lockheed Martin), Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado-Boulder), Pooyan Jamshidi (University of South Carolina), Morgan Quigley (Open Source Robotics Foundation), Trenton Tabor (Carnegie Mellon University) and Qi Zhu (Northwestern University)
• Abstract summary: Software Engineering for Robotics was held in Detroit, Michigan in October 2023. The goal of the workshop was to bring together thought leaders across robotics and software engineering to coalesce a community. This report serves to summarize the motivation, activities, and findings of that workshop.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Robots are experiencing a revolution as they permeate many aspects of our daily lives, from performing house maintenance to infrastructure inspection, from efficiently warehousing goods to autonomous vehicles, and more. This technical progress and its impact are astounding. This revolution, however, is outstripping the capabilities of existing software development processes, techniques, and tools, which largely have remained unchanged for decades. These capabilities are ill-suited to handling the challenges unique to robotics software such as dealing with a wide diversity of domains, heterogeneous hardware, programmed and learned components, complex physical environments captured and modeled with uncertainty, emergent behaviors that include human interactions, and scalability demands that span across multiple dimensions. Looking ahead to the need to develop software for robots that are ever more ubiquitous, autonomous, and reliant on complex adaptive components, hardware, and data, motivated an NSF-sponsored community workshop on the subject of Software Engineering for Robotics, held in Detroit, Michigan in October 2023. The goal of the workshop was to bring together thought leaders across robotics and software engineering to coalesce a community, and identify key problems in the area of SE for robotics that that community should aim to solve over the next 5 years. This report serves to summarize the motivation, activities, and findings of that workshop, in particular by articulating the challenges unique to robot software, and identifying a vision for fruitful near-term research directions to tackle them.

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