The Seventh International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and Models for Robotic Systems (DSLRob 2017)

The workshop will focus on the use of Domain-Specific Languages and Models for Robotic Systems. The challenge of building complex systems that compose several lower-level models or domain-specific languages is considered of special interest this year. Moreover, topics that are of interest for the workshop include:

• DSLs targeting specific application domains, such as service robots, automation, biomedical, autonomous vehicles (land, sea, air), and modular robots.

• DSLs addressing specific technical challenges, such as system integration, AI, sensor/actuator networks, distributed and cloud robotics, perception, sensor information, human robot interaction, uncertainty, modeling of physical systems, and real-time constraints.

• DSLs providing alternative programming models, such as reactive behaviors, composition of behaviors, motion description languages (MDL), and cooperative robotics.

• Models to represent robotics software architectures and their variability.

• Runtime models for reasoning and dynamic adaptation.

• Surveys of the use of DSLs in specific subdomains of robotics.

• Tool support and frameworks for describing and manipulating DSLs and models for robotic systems.

• Code generation and code transformation for robotics systems.

• Frameworks to combine DSLs and models in a uniform manner.

• Case studies on the use of DSLs in advanced robotics systems.

• Benchmarks to compare the use of DSLs versus the use of general-purpose programming languages.

• Programming languages in the context of robotic systems, such as dynamic languages, languages to teach robotics, and visual languages.