Advanced Robot Programming: a Review

A Comparative Review of Robot Programming Languages

In this paper, we make a comparative review of a variety of \intermediate-level" robot languages that have emerged in recent years. We also describe a robot programming language called FROB (for Functional ROBotics). FROB is an example of an embedded, domain-speci c language, hosted by the Haskell programming language. We present the basic concepts of the language, discuss the ability of FROB t...

Interactive Multimodal Robot Programming Interactive Multimodal Robot Programming

As robots enter the human environment and come into contact with inexperienced users, they need to be able to interact with users in a multimodal fashion—keyboard and mouse are no longer acceptable as the only input modalities. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for programming robots interactively through a multimodal interface. The key characteristic of this approach is that the user...

Robot Progra 59 . Robot Programming by Demonstration

A Structured Logic Programming Approach to Robot Programming

This paper discusses an approach to robot programming based on Prolog, properly extended with control capabilities toward program structuring (contextual programming) and (pseudo)concurrence (communicating Prolog units). This Prolog-based programming system supports the definition, both static and dynamic, of extendible software components, promoting at the same time incremental design and deve...

A Programming Language Extension for Probabilistic Robot Programming

In recent years, probabilistic techniques have led to improved solutions for many robotics problems. However, no general tools are currently available to aid the development of probabilistic robotic software. This paper presents a programming language extension to C++ that integrates probabilistic computation and learning. Its two main ideas are to make probability distributions as usable as fl...