Lucas Bueno Ruas de Oliveira
Papers
9
Total Citations
53
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5
About
Lucas Bueno Ruas de Oliveira is a researcher whose work sits at the crossroads of software engineering and robotics, with a particular focus on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applied to robotic systems. His research addresses one of the field's central challenges: how to manage the growing heterogeneity and complexity of modern robotic applications as robots expand beyond industrial settings into collaborative roles alongside humans. Oliveira's most cited contribution, "An investigation into the development of service-oriented robotic systems" (2013, 16 citations), laid important groundwork for understanding how SOA principles can be systematically applied to robotic software development. Building on this foundation, he developed taxonomies for classifying robotic services, tooling support through RoboSeT for cataloging and discovering services, and ArchSORS, a dedicated software process for designing service-oriented robotic architectures — each accumulating between 6 and 7 citations. His earlier systematic mapping of software engineering practices in embedded and mobile robot software (2010) demonstrates a career-long commitment to evidence-based research methodology. Collectively, Oliveira's body of work has contributed a structured, engineering-driven approach to robotic software development, offering practitioners reusable frameworks, processes, and tools that make building sophisticated robotic systems more tractable and maintainable.
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- 1An investigation into the development of service-oriented robotic systems16 citations · 2013
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- 5Architectural design of service-oriented robotic systems6 citations · 2015
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- 9A systematic review on service-oriented robotic systems development.2 citations · 2012