Methodology and design principles for a generic simulation platform for distributed robotic system experimentation and development

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Design Principles ◽  
Robotic System ◽  
Simulation Platform ◽  
Distributed Robotic System

scholarly journals Rosy: An elegant language to teach the pure reactive nature of robot programming

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-46
Author(s):  
Hugo Pacheco ◽  
Nuno Macedo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Functional Programming ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Robotic System ◽  
Robot Programming ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Convincing Case ◽  
The Future

Robotics is very appealing and is long recognized as a great way to teach programming, while drawing inspiring connections to other branches of engineering and science such as maths, physics or electronics. Although this symbiotic relationship between robotics and programming is perceived as largely beneficial, educational approaches often feel the need to hide the underlying complexity of the robotic system, but as a result fail to transmit the reactive essence of robot programming to the roboticists and programmers of the future. This paper presents Rosy, a novel language for teaching novice programmers through robotics. Its functional style is both familiar with a high-school algebra background and a materialization of the inherent reactive nature of robotic programming. Working at a higher-level of abstraction also teaches valuable design principles of decomposition of robotics software into collections of interacting controllers. Despite its simplicity, Rosy is completely valid Haskell code compatible with the ROS~ecosystem. We make a convincing case for our language by demonstrating how non-trivial applications can be expressed with ease and clarity, exposing its sound functional programming foundations, and developing a web-enabled robot programming environment.

Evaluation of Communication Structure for Cellular Robotic System

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Ueyama ◽  
◽  
Toshio Fukuda ◽  
Fumihito Arai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Cellular Network ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Robotic System ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
Communication Architecture ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Distributed Intelligent Systems ◽  
Distributed Robotic System

This paper deals with an evaluation of the communication architecture for Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT) with plural master cells. The CEBOT consists of a large number of autonomous robotic units called ""cells,"" that is, the system is one of distributed robotic systems. The communication architecture is one of the important issues for distributed intelligent systems. To evaluate the effectiveness of the communication architecture, we use the network energy, which is proposed by us in the previous paper. The issue of the communication architecture for the distributed robotic system is also one of the grouping issues for the group robotic system. In this paper, we consider each master cell as a coordinator in each sub-network, where the sub-network is constructed by a master cell as a core. To evaluate the grouping network, we propose the cross-dependence matrix, which presents the relation between the cells and the task steps depending on a given task. The simulation results presents the grouping examples of the cellular network. According to the simulation results, we also describe the effect for the group structure of community or a society.

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