Enhancing software modularity and extensibility: A case for using generic data representations

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 299-304

  Broten, Gregory ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DATA; SOFTWARE MECHANISM; SOFTWARE MODULARITY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; GROUND VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 36348963138     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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