Papers and Publications

The Finroc Papers (best general Finroc references)

[Reichardt17] One Fits More - On Highly Modular Quality-Driven Design of Robotic Frameworks and Middleware Max Reichardt and Steffen Schütz and Karsten Berns in Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics (JOSER): Special Issue on Robotic Computing. Volume 8, Number 1, Pages 141-153, December 2017 (extended version of our paper on the IEEE IRC 2017)

[Reichardt13] On Software Quality-motivated Design of a Real-time Framework for Complex Robot Control Systems Max Reichardt, Tobias Föhst and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability (SQM), in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), March 2013, Genova, Italy. https://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst/article/view/855

Main publications on Finroc

[Reichardt15] An overview on framework design for autonomous robots Max Reichardt, Tobias Föhst, and Karsten Berns in it - Information Technology. Volume 57, Issue 2, Pages 75–84, March 2015 DOI: 10.1515/itit-2014-1065

[Reichardt14] On the Benefits of Component-Defined Real-Time Visualization of Robotics Software Max Reichardt, Gregor Zolynski, Michael Arndt, and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2014). Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - pages 376-387 - October 2014, Bergamo, Italy. The final publication is available at Springer via https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11900-7_32

[Schuetz14] Seamless Extension of a Robot Control Framework to Bare Metal Embedded Nodes Steffen Schütz, Max Reichardt, Michael Arndt, and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the Informatik 2014 - ser. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), pages 1307-1318, September 2014, Stuttgart, Germany

[Reichardt13b] Principles in Framework Design applied in Networked Robotics Max Reichardt, Tobias Föhst, and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications (TA2013) - invited paper, November 2013, Seoul, Korea

[Reichardt13a] Design Principles in Robot Control Frameworks Max Reichardt, Tobias Föhst, and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the Informatik 2013 - ser. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), September 2013, Koblenz, Germany

[Reichardt12] Introducing FINROC: A Convenient Real-time Framework for Robotics based on a Systematic Design Approach Max Reichardt, Tobias Föhst, and Karsten Berns, Technical Report, July 2012, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Integration with other frameworks

[Arndt13] Requirements for Interoperability and Seamless Integration of Different Robotic Frameworks Michael Arndt, Max Reichardt, Jochen Hirth, and Karsten Berns in Proceedings of the eighth full-day Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR VIII), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany