An agent-based approach for programming mobile robots

Author

Lim, William

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. Center, Grumman Corp., Bethpage, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

8-13 May 1994

Firstpage

3584

Abstract

Agent-based programming offers a different way of looking at the programming problem. Instead of a sequential organization of functions, procedures, or routines, the user thinks in terms of small software units interacting in parallel. In this paper we present an agent based programming language called SAL (the SmartyCat Agent Language) developed for programming mobile robots. In particular we discuss how SAL is implemented and used for programming a Cybermotion K2A robot, called SmartyCat. A brief description of SmartyCat is given. The features and constructs of SAL are discussed. It is discussed how SAL is used for programming a mobile robot

Keywords

cooperative systems; high level languages; mobile robots; parallel programming; programming languages; robot programming; Cybermotion K2A robot; SAL; SmartyCat Agent Language; agent-based programming language; mobile robot programming; parallel software units; Actuators; Computer languages; Explosions; Hardware; Intelligent robots; Mobile robots; Programming profession; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Turning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5330-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1994.351020

Filename

351020