First International Workshop on Model Based Engineering for Robotics (RoSym’10)

The main objectives of this workshop are to organize common discussions within Model-base Engineering (MBE) and Robotics experts on how MBE can help robotics people and to share issues that robotics people have encountered with MBE. Current engineering approaches for robotic systems have indeed been demonstrated to be insufficient to bypass following constraints that robotics embedded systems are currently facing: - the problem space is huge: as uncertainty of the environment and the number and type of resources available to the robot increase, the definition of the best matching between current situation and correct robot resource exploitation becomes overwhelming even for the most skilled robot engineer, - the solution space is huge: in order to enhance robustness of complex robotic systems, existing cognitive methods and techniques need to exploit robotic-specific resources adequately. This means that the robotic system engineer should master highly heterogeneous technologies in order to integrate them in a consistent and effective way.