The mobile robot programming problem is a software engineering challenge that is not easily conquered using contemporary software engineering best practices. We propose robot observability as a measure of the diagnostic transparency of a situated robot program, then describe property mapping as a simple, language-independent approach to implementing reliable robot programs by maximizing robot o...

This paper describes research and investigation on programming language used in mobile robot controller development by using mobile communication technologies such as Bluetooth, Infrared, Wireless LAN and Zigbee. We found that most mobile robot controllers have been developed using C/C++. It is because C/C++ has powerful extensions that the unit type information can be added within the language...

The paper focuses on the enhancement of automatic robot programming techniques for laser cutting application. Its particular contribution lies in the area of multiobjective optimization of robot motions via graph representation of the search space and the dynamic programming procedures. It have been developed algorithms that allow to generate smooth manipulator trajectories within acceptable ti...

The part coordinates are always calibrated before the welding robot carries out some tasks. Traditional methods are using expensive and complicated devices for measuring. A novel method for quick calibration is presented based on a 3 points operation, which only uses the internal encoder data of robot and coordinates transform calculation to get the coordinates transform matrix between the part...

The style in which a robot moves, including its gait or locomotion style, can project strong messages, for example, it can be easy to distinguish a happy dog from an aggressive dog simply by how it is moving, and one can often tell if a colleague is stressed simply by the way they are walking. Defining the real-time interactive, stylistic aspects of robotic movements via programming can be diff...

This paper describes a series of experiments that were performed on the Rocky III robot.1 Rocky III is a small autonomous rover capable of navigating through rough outdoor terrain to a predesignated area, searching that area for soft soil, acquiring a soil sample, and depositing the sample in a container at its home base. The robot is programmed according to a reactive behaviorcontrol paradigm ...

In order to meet the needs of mobile robots to make the global path planning based on a given environment information, related mathematical model was established, and simulation results were given by using the dynamic programming algorithm. In the road traffic path planning, master robot communicates with multiple slave robots through the server, and collects information from slave robots to ad...

A self-reconfigurable robot is a robotic device that can change its own shape. Self-reconfigurable robots are commonly built from multiple identical modules that can manipulate each other to change the shape of the robot. The robot can also perform tasks such as locomotion without changing shape. Programming a modular, self-reconfigurable robot is however a complicated task: the robot is essent...

We describe the first instance of an approach for control programming of humanoid robots, based on evolution as the main adaptation mechanism. In an attempt to overcome some of the difficulties with evolution on real hardware, we use a physically realistic simulation of the robot. The essential idea in this concept is to evolve control programs from first principles on a simulated robot, transf...

A method for evolving behavior-based robot controllers using genetic programming is presented. Due to their hierarchical nature, genetic programs are useful representing high-level knowledge for robot controllers. One drawback is the difficulty of incorporating sensory inputs. To overcome the gap between symbolic representation and direct sensor values, the elements of the function set in genet...