Speaker: Vasile-Marian Scuturici
Affiliation: INSA de Lyon, France
Date: 2014/4/15(Tue) 16:30-18:00
Room: W2 10F 1019
Title: Continuous Query Processing over Data, Streams and Services: Application to Robotics
Abstract: Developing applications involving mobile robots is a difficult task which requires technical skills spanning different areas of expertise, mainly computer science, robotics and electronics. Actually, a typically mobile robot application is roughly built on top of some middleware, the semantic glue being implemented with an imperative language like C++ or Python. In this presentation, we sketch an alternative declarative approach based on recent advances in Data Management techniques. The basic idea is to see a multi-robot environment as a set of data, streams and services which can be described at a high level of abstraction. We provide our first results using a SQL-like language showing that such applications can be devised with a few continuous queries, much easier to express than ad-hoc programming.