Method and apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring robot components

An apparatus for reconfiguring robot components in an environment that includes a robot terminal apparatus, including a plurality of internal components, and external components, existing outside the robot terminal apparatus and interacting with the internal components, the apparatus comprising:

• a situation monitoring unit for checking whether there has been a change in a situation of the robot terminal apparatus;
• a component availability analysis unit for determining at least one component that belongs to the internal components or the external components and that is available in accordance with a change in the situation of the robot terminal apparatus based on results of the checking of the situation monitoring unit;
• a component search unit for searching for at least one component based on results of the determination of the component availability analysis unit;
• a component dependency analysis unit for analyzing a dependency relationship between the component found by the component search unit and the component determined to be available by the component availability analysis unit;
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• a component reconfiguration unit for reconfiguring a connection relationship between the components based on the dependency relationship between the components analyzed by the component dependency analysis unit.