Managing Communication Paradigms with a Dynamic Adaptive Middleware

摘要

Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars, are an emerging but very complex class of systems designed to relieve people of many unpleasant tasks. However, in the industry software architectures and frameworks that have been developed for non-autonomous systems are often used for such autonomous systems. These architectures and frameworks are rigid, very close to the hardware platform and offer little room for extensions. In this paper, we present a dynamic-adaptive middleware for autonomous systems, which is based on a formal component model and supports several communication paradigms independent of the actually used communication technologies. The presented middleware has already been implemented as a prototype and tested with an electric model vehicle.