The software framework SMARTSOFT for implementing sensorimotor systems

Presents the software framework SMARTSOFT to implement sensorimotor systems. SMARTSOFT not only contains software components to support a modularized implementation but also structural rules and templates. These ensure that the implementation of modules is conforming with an overall multilayer system architecture. Since the provided structures allow the exact specification of the external behavior of modules in terms of interfaces and dependencies, the interaction with a symbolic task execution layer is explicitly supported. SMARTSOFT significantly eases the implementation and integration of new modules into a complex sensorimotor system which for example provides the opportunity even to compare and reuse different modules on a mobile platform. SMARTSOFT has already proven its usefulness within the collaborative research center (SFB 527) “Integration of Symbolic and Subsymbolic Information Processing in Adaptive Sensorimotor Systems”