Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Robotics: A Research Agenda

arXiv:2505.19629 · cs.SE, cs.RO · Submitted 2025-05-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.RO

Submitted: 2025-05-26

Updated: 2026-05-06

Project page: https://simula-complex.github.io/robomap

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Adaptation — 103× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Digital Twin — 70× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Verification — 34× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adaptability — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Fidelity — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Model-Driven Engineering — 11× in this paper
Foundation Model — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Foundation Models — 10× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Robustness — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Artificial Intelligence — 9× in this paper
Consistency — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Modularity — 9× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Explainability — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Formal Methods — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Abstraction — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Formal Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Hallucination — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Human-in-the-Loop — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Modular Architecture — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Catastrophic Forgetting — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Software Requirements Engineering — 3× in this paper
ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptive Logic — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptive Response — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Cognitive Load — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
Deep Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Energy Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Hybrid Approach — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Hybrid Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Robot Operating System — 2× in this paper
Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
AI Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Affective Computing — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference — 1× in this paper
Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Data Fusion — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Instance Segmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
International Conference on Robotic Computing — 1× in this paper
Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Physical Twin — 1× in this paper
Predictive Maintenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
Sim-to-Real Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Task Planning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Variability Modelling Language — 1× in this paper
Verifiability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Robotics: A Research Agenda

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