Abstract
In software engineering, energy awareness refers to the conscious design and development of software that is able to monitor and react to energy state. Energy awareness is the key building block for energy efficiency and for other quality aspects of robotics software, such as mission completion time and safety. However, as of today, there is no guidance for practitioners and researchers on how to architect robotics software with energy awareness in mind. The goal of this paper is to identify architectural tactics for energy-aware robotics software. Specifically, using a dataset of 339493 data points extracted from five complementary data sources (e.g., source code repositories, Stack Overflow), we identified and analyzed 97 data points that considered both energy consumption and architectural concerns. We then synthesized a set of energy-aware architectural tactics via thematic analysis. In this preliminary investigation we focus on two representative architectural tactics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Software Architecture |
| Subtitle of host publication | 15th European Conference, ECSA 2021, Virtual Event, Sweden, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings |
| Editors | Stefan Biffl, Elena Navarro, Welf Lowe, Marjan Sirjani, Raffaela Mirandola, Danny Weyns, Danny Weyns |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 164-171 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030860448 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030860431 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
| Event | 15th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 13 Sept 2021 → 17 Sept 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 12857 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | 15th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2021 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 13/09/21 → 17/09/21 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments. This research is partially supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through the OCENW.XS2.038 grant; and the CNPQ/FA through the PPP-CP-20/2018 call.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Funding
Acknowledgments. This research is partially supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through the OCENW.XS2.038 grant; and the CNPQ/FA through the PPP-CP-20/2018 call.
