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@InProceedings{2020:ICSE:RobotArchitecture, AUTHOR = {Malavolta, Ivano and Lewis, Grace A. and Schmerl, Bradley and Lago, Patricia and Garlan, David}, TITLE = {How do you Architect your Robots? State of the Practice and Guidelines for ROS-based System}, YEAR = {2020}, MONTH = {23-29 May}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice}, PDF = {http://acme.able.cs.cmu.edu/pubs/uploads/pdf/ICSE_SEIP_20202020_ICSE_RobotArchitecture.pdf}, ABSTRACT = {The Robot Operating System (ROS) is the de-facto standard for robotic software. If on one hand ROS is helping roboticists, e.g., by providing a standardized communication platform, on the other hand ROS-based systems are getting larger and more complex and could benefit from good software architecture practices. This paper presents an observational study aimed at (i) unveiling the state of the practice for architecture of ROS-based systems and (ii) providing guidance to roboticists about how to properly architect ROS-based systems. To achieve these goals, we (i) build a dataset of 335 GitHub repositories containing real open-source ROS-based systems, (ii) mine the repositories for extracting the state of the practice about how roboticists are architecting them, and (iii) synthesize a catalog of 49 evidence-based guidelines for architecting ROS-based systems. The guidelines have been validated by 77 roboticists working on real-world open-source ROS-based systems. }, KEYWORDS = {Architectural Analysis, Software Architecture} }