How to properly cite the abb_libegm project

[traversaro]

Hi @jontje, I was wondering if there is any specific publication/work that would like user to cite when they write a academic pubblication, and they want to properly refer/cite abb_libegm ?

Thanks in advance!

[jontje]

Hi @traversaro,

Good question.

A start would be to at least cite that ABB developed abb_libegm with support from the EU projects SYMBIO-TIC and ROSIN (abb_libegm wouldn't exist without them). See the readme's acknowledgements section for some more details.

I hope this helps!

[traversaro]

Hi @jontje , thanks!

Typically in academic papers we don't cite the funding of the work/software that we refer to (as otherwise it may quite complex to track and mention the funding of all the papers that you cite), and this job is typically left to the resources that are linked by the citation.

In any case, for the citation I was thinking something like:

@inproceedings{tjerngren2018ease,
  title={Ease-of-Use Packages between ROS and ABB Robots},
  author={Tjerngren, Jon and ABB},
  booktitle={ROS-Industrial Conference},
  url={https://rosindustrial.org/s/20181212_Jon_Tjerngren.PDF},
  year={2018}
}

(That is already cited by two pubblication, see https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=abb_libegm&btnG= ) .

Otherwise one can cite the raw GitHub repo, something like:

@misc{abblibegm2018,
  author = {Tjerngren, Jon and ABB},
  title = {abb_libegm},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/ros-industrial/abb_libegm}},
  commit = {c91601dfc9844f2d37b1eac0d2b7060f0ac2550b}
}

but I did not checked how this get rendered in the templates that I used, I just copied it from https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14010/how-do-you-cite-a-github-repository .

[jontje]

Typically in academic papers we don't cite the funding of the work/software that we refer to (as otherwise it may quite complex to track and mention the funding of all the papers that you cite), and this job is typically left to the resources that are linked by the citation.

Ah, yes, I have some vague memories of having heard that before :sweat_smile:

[gavanderhoorn]

I'm not aware of any publications. There is no seminal paper which describes abb_libegm.

My suggestion would be to use the first option you mention (ie: @jontje's presentation at the ROS-I Conference 2018).

[traversaro]

I think I can close the issue as I gather the information I was interested in, thanks!