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A Preliminary Systematic Mapping on Software Engineering for Robotic Systems: A Software Quality Perspective

Authors:

Marcela G. dos Santos,

Bianca M. Napoleão,

Fabio Petrillo,

Fehmi JaafarAuthors Info & Claims

ICSEW'20: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops

Pages 647 - 654

https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392197

Published: 25 September 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Robotic systems have been increasingly employed in everyday tasks. Considering that software plays a crucial point in robot systems, to investigate how software engineering concepts in a software quality perspective can improve robotic systems. In this work, we present a systematic mapping to identify and classify the state-of-art of software engineering for robotic systems in a quality software perspective. We selected and systematically analyzed a final set of 35 primary studies extracted from an automated search on Scopus digital library.

This work presents three main contributions. Firstly, we organize a catalogue of research studies about software engineering, more specifically software quality applied in robotic systems. Next, we systematically analyze software quality areas used in robotic systems. Finally, we discuss insights into research opportunities and gaps in software engineering to robotic systems for future studies.

As a result, we observed that there are studies in the robotic systems area, addressing in a combined way, software engineering approaches and software quality aspects. The less investigated software quality aspect is security. Due to this fact, we presented an overview of the state-of-art on blockchain applying in robotics systems. Blockchain brings opportunities for changing the ways that robots interact with humans. Finally, we identify research opportunities and gaps in software quality on robotic systems, presenting an overview for future studies.

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A Preliminary Systematic Mapping on Software Engineering for Robotic Systems: A Software Quality Perspective
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
    2. Robotics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Embedded software

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