Usability benchmarks of the Targets-Drives-Means robotic architecture

Author

Berenz, Vincent ; Suzuki, Kenji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Intell. Interaction Technol., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

Nov. 29 2012-Dec. 1 2012

Firstpage

514

Lastpage

519

Abstract

Even for robots delivered with a middleware, end-user implementation of reaction and deliberation remains a difficult task. We proposed Targets Drives Means (TDM), a behavior based architecture which level of abstraction allows behavior specification through declarative association of reusable components. If behavior based robotic has been broadly used in specialized architectures, TDM implemented it for end-users tools for behavior specification. In this paper TDM is evaluated as a solution for end-user robot programming and results of comparative usability tests are presented.

Keywords

humanoid robots; legged locomotion; middleware; personal computing; robot programming; software architecture; TDM; abstraction level; behavior specification; behavior-based robotic architecture; declarative association; end-user implementation; end-user robot programming; end-user tools; humanoid robots; middleware; reusable components; targets-drives-means robotic architecture; usability benchmarks; usability tests; Computer architecture; Legged locomotion; Programming; Robot sensing systems; Time division multiplexing; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka

ISSN

2164-0572

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2012.6651568

Filename

6651568