A system integration approach for service-oriented robotics

The robotic system integrator's dream of (re)using existing software components and benefiting from a common software framework for service orchestration becomes more and more evident. Current initiatives tend to promote the own framework or class library and do not put a lot of effort into illustrating how to integrate existing functionality from other frameworks. Within joint projects between industry and scientific partners, we typically face the challenge of having several development teams using different techniques, class libraries and open source frameworks. In this context, we want to present our development approach using 4DIAC development tools and explicitly highlight useful extensions added for a smooth integration of heterogeneous components of various frameworks which is shown by examples.