The rocs framework to support the development of autonomous robots

Abstract

With the expansion of autonomous robotics and the variety of applications found nowadays (e.g. medical, competition, military), the biggest hurdle on the development of mobile robots lies in endowing them with the capacity of interacting with the environment and making correct decisions so that their tasks can be executed successfully. Based on the wellknown IBM Autonomic Computing reference architecture (known as MAPE-K), this work defines a refined architecture following the Robotics perspective.