
In the context of space missions and terrestrial applications, both mission goals and task implementations for autonomous robots are becoming increasingly complex. Thus, the challenge of monitoring the achievement of task objectives and checking the correctness of their implementation is becoming more and more difficult. To tackle these problems, we propose an unified architecture that supports different stakeholders during the different phases of the deployment: 1) the design phase; 2) the runtime phase; and 3) the postmortem analysis phase. Furthermore, we implement this architecture by enhancing our task programming framework RMC advanced flow control with powerful logging, debugging, and profiling capabilities. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach in the context of the ROBEX mission, during which the DLR Lightweight Rover Unit autonomously deployed several seismometers in an unknown rough terrain on Mt. Etna, Sicily. The analysis results for a state machine consisting of more than 1500 states and more than 1900 transitions are presented. Finally, we give a comparison between our framework and related software tools.
space robotics and automation, middleware and programming environments, Kognitive Robotik, field robots, mobile manipulation, autonomous agents
space robotics and automation, middleware and programming environments, Kognitive Robotik, field robots, mobile manipulation, autonomous agents
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