Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Robots are being used for an increasing number and range of tasks in the fields of nuclear energy, mining, petrochemical processing, and sub-sea. This is resulting in ever more complex robotics installations being deployed, maintained, and extended over long periods of time.

We present CorteX, which attempts to solve the long-term maintainability and extensibility issues encountered in such scenarios through the use of a standardised, self-describing data representations and associated communications protocols.