Paper Info
Title
Impact of libre software tools and methods in the robotics field
Abstract
Software is one of the major components of robots; in fact, it is the main bottleneck for the proliferation of robotics in our everyday lives. In the last years the field of robotics has been an emerging application area of the libre (free/open source) software phenomenon. Libre software tools have been traditionally popular among the robotics research and teaching community. Even companies whose main business model is to sell robots have found convenient to share the software in order to promote a community around their products. In this paper we analyze the situation of libre software in these three subareas: industry, teaching and research. In particular, we describe commercial robots like the Cye and the Pioneer, a software platform like Orocos as a examples of industrial world applications, the libre tools around the LEGO Mindstorms in the case of teaching, and the Robocup competition and the Player/Stage platform in research area. All these cases show that libre software can act as a catalyst in the robotics industry which is still a sector in its early research and industrial stages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1083258.1083261
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Keywords
Field
DocType
libre software,open source,robotics education,robotics industry,robotics research
Bottleneck,Geography of robotics,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Future of robotics,Software,Business model,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Robotics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
4
0163-5948
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-127-9
34
0.47
References 
Authors
2
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pablo Barrera1441.75
Gregorio Robles2129491.67
José M. Cañas3340.80
Francisco Martín4557.92
Vicente Matellán59815.50