Glossary
Key terms and concepts in robotics fleet management, DevOps, edge computing, and the Roboticks platform. Select a term to learn what it means and how Roboticks implements it.
- @confirms Decorator
Roboticks SDK decorator (Python) and macro (C++) that marks a test as confirming a specific requirement.
- Air-Gapped Deployment
Deployment in an environment with no external network connectivity.
- ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level)
ISO 26262 hazard classification: ASIL-A (lowest) through ASIL-D (highest), plus QM (no safety relevance).
- EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, replacing the 2006/42/EC Machinery Directive, applies from January 20, 2027.
- Evidence Pack
A scoped bundle of verification artifacts assembled for a Release: PDF report, ReqIF export, JUnit results, optional MCAP recordings, LLM triage notes, SARIF static-analysis output, coverage matrix snapshot.
- Fault Injection
Deliberately introducing failures into a running system to verify how it handles them.
- Gazebo Harmonic
Current LTS release of the Gazebo robotics simulator (formerly Ignition Gazebo).
- GitHub App
First-class GitHub integration that installs on an organization (rather than per-user).
- IEC 61508
Generic functional-safety standard for E/E/PE systems (electrical, electronic, programmable-electronic).
- ISO 10218:2025
Two-part international standard for industrial-robot safety.
- MCAP
Open-source container format for heterogeneous time-series robotics data (ROS2 messages, structured logs, raw sensor data).
- Performance Level (PL)
ISO 13849 safety classification: PLa (lowest) through PLe (highest).
- Release
A first-class object pinning commits across all linked repos and snapshotting the requirements set.
- ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format)
OMG standard XML format for exchanging requirements between tools.
- Requirement Traceability
The ability to trace each requirement to the design elements, code, tests, and verification evidence that confirm it — in both directions.
- Roboticks SDK
Open-source (Apache 2.
- ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2)
The current iteration of the open-source robotics middleware, successor to ROS1 (which went EOL in May 2025).
- SARIF
OASIS standard JSON format (currently 2.
- SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
Machine-readable inventory of every software component (and its version) in a build.
- Self-Hosted Runner
A test runner running on customer-provided infrastructure via the open-source roboticks-runner Go binary.
- Sim Minutes
The metered billing dimension for hosted simulator execution.
- Sim Runner
A runner pool that executes tests against a robotics simulator (Gazebo Harmonic or Webots).
- Verification & Validation (V&V)
Two distinct activities.
- Webots
Open-source robotics simulator with strong multi-robot and educational adoption.