Design of an embedded robot control sublanguage

The authors present the design and implementation of an embedded robot control sublanguage. The current implementation uses the C language as the host language running on an IBM PC interfaced to a Rhino SCARA robot arm through a Mark III controller. Standard Unix compiler construction tools YACC and LEX are utilized to implement the language translator. It is concluded that language system is valuable for learning basic robot control principles and provides a basis for future extension to a comprehensive and integrated robot programming system for sophisticated robot applications