Today’s developments in industrial robots focus on aims like gain of flexibility, improvement of the interaction between robots and reduction of down-times. A very important method to achieve these goals are off-line programming techniques. In contrast to conventional teach-in robot programming techniques, where sequences of actions are defined step-by-step via remote control on the real object...

This paper describes a programming language extension of C++, called CES, specifically targeted towards mobile robot control. CES’s design is motivated by a recent series of successful probabilistic methods for mobile robot control, with the goal of facilitating the development of such probabilistic software in future robot applications. CES extends C++ by two ideas: Computing with probability ...

This paper proposes an architecture thatmakes programming of robot behavior of an arbitrary complexity possible for end-users and shows the technical solutions in away that is easy to understand and generalize to different situations. It aims to facilitate the uptake and actual use of robot technologies in therapies for training social skills to autistic children. However, the framework is easy...

An off‐line programming software designed for multiple robots cooperation system is presented in this paper. At the beginning of the paper, current technologies of robot off‐line programming are reviewed and summarized. Then, present status of cooperative functions and cooperative motion instructions defined by predominant robot manufacturers are introduced. Thereafte...

In this paper, we propose a definition of goal achievability: given a basic action theory describing an initial state of the world and some primitive actions available to a robot, including some actions which return binary sensing information, what goals can be achieved by the robot? The main technical result of the paper is a proof that a simple robot programming language is universal, in that...

JCSPre is a highly reduced version of the JCSP (Communicating Sequential Processes for Java) parallel programming environment. JCSPre has been implemented on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick using the LeJOS Java runtime environment. The LeJOS environment provides an abstraction for the NXT Robot in terms of Sensors, Sensor Ports and Motors, amongst others. In the implementation described these abstr...

This paper describes a new, open sources robot architecture initiative called the Extensible Robot Control Language (XRCL). This system is designed to provide a modern robot-programming interface which is adaptable and easy to learn. We describe a fuzzy logic control system built on this framework, and examine the system at work in two tasks at the AAAI 1999 Mobile Robot Competition.

Purpose – This paper seeks to develop universal software (a programming framework) enabling the implementation of service robot controllers. The software should distinguish the hardware-oriented part of the system from the task-oriented one. Moreover, force, vision as well as other sensors should be taken into account. Multi-effector systems have to be considered. Design/methodology/approach – ...