Spatial Computing with Labels

Author

Schultz, U.P. ; Bordignon, M. ; Christensen, D. ; Stoy, K.

Author_Institution

Modular Robot. Lab., Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense

fYear

2008

fDate

20-24 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

326

Lastpage

331

Abstract

A reconfigurable robot is a robot that can change shape. Programming reconfigurable robots is complicated by the need to adapt the behavior of each of the individual module to the overall physical shape of the robot. In this position paper, we investigate a simple approach to allow the programmer to abstract over the concrete shape of a robot using the notion of a label as a simple means of addressing various parts of the structure of a robot. Labels provide the programming language designer with a means of stratifying two main components of a spatial programming language for modular robots, namely specifying the physical structure of a robot and specifying its behavior. Based on previous experience with the ATRON robot, we find that labels are a useful concept for programming modular robots.

Keywords

programming languages; robot programming; software engineering; ATRON robot; modular robots; programming language designer; reconfigurable robot; robot programming; spatial programming language; Computer languages; Concrete; Conferences; Connectors; Councils; Hardware; Production; Programming profession; Robot programming; Shape; modular robots; programming languages; robotics; spatial computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, 2008. SASOW 2008. Second IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3553-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3553-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SASOW.2008.42

Filename

4800698