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An Approach to Testing Software on Networked Transport Robots

Authors:
Ichiro Satoh

Keywords: Software testing, robot, emulation

Abstract:
Networked transport robots have been widely used to carry products in manufacturing and warehousing spaces. Such robots communicate with servers in the spaces and other robots through wireless local-area networks. Therefore, software running on such robots is executed with the services that the robots are connected to through networks, including multicast protocols. To test such software, we need to execute it within the network domains of the locations that the robots may move and connect to because the correctness of the software depends on the services. To solve this problem, we present a framework for emulating the physical mobility of transport robots by using the logical mobility of software designed to run on computers. It enables such software to run within target network domains so that the software can locally access servers and receive multicast packets limited to the domains.

Pages: 27 to 32

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: March 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-61208-701-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from March 24, 2019 to March 28, 2019