Model driven engineering: A way to handle complexity, quality and processes in component based robot systems

To overcome the current shortcomings of the ROS robotic community: high complexity and little reuse, the usage of the concept of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is demonstrated. Furthermore a concrete MDE implementation in the form of the BRICS integrated developer environment (BRIDE) is evaluated to prove that the enforcement of the separation of concerns, user roles and platform dependent code through MDE improve the software quality.