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A First Course on Software Architectures for Robotics

A First Course on Software Architectures for Robotics

Martín Rico, Francisco
Pérez-Rodríguez, Rodrigo

Hardcover

General ComputersProgramming

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 22, 2027

ISBN10: 1041402414
ISBN13: 9781041402411
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Mar 22 2027
Pages: 240
Language: English

This coursebook teaches robotics engineers how to design, analyze, and evolve the software behind real robotic systems, developing a coherent, architectural way of thinking that considers how combinations of factors determine whether a robot's software is robust, maintainable, and able to scale.

The book pairs theoretical chapters with hands-on practical exercises of increasing complexity, using ROS 2 throughout as a concrete, widely adopted vehicle for architectural reasoning. Beyond isolated algorithms and tool-specific tutorials, the authors explain the implications behind decisions about components, communication, concurrency, state, and time. Readers progress from middleware fundamentals, reactive execution, and spatial representation through hybrid deliberative architectures, finite-state machines, and behavior trees, arriving at a synthesis chapter that compares reference architectures such as Nav2, PlanSys2, and EasyNav alongside a deep dive into ROS 2 executors, lifecycle, and real-time behavior. The practical track mirrors this progression, building toward an open-ended capstone in which students design and justify a complete mission-task-capability architecture of their own.

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