Lifelong Exploratory Navigation: An Architecture for Safer Mobile Robots

Fabrice Mayran de Chamisso, Daniela Cancila, Laurent Soulier, Roberto Passerone, Michaël Aupetit

Abstract: Editor’s notes: This article studies a layered architecture for robotics design, proposes a contract-based interface between the layers, and shows how cross-layer adaptation between these layers can be done in response to different scenarios. –Samarjit Chakraborty, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill