Code reusability tools for programming mobile robots

Author

Côté, Carle ; Letourneau, Dominic ; Michaud, François ; Valin, Jean-Marc ; Brosseau, Yannick ; Raïevsky, Clément ; Lemay, Mathieu ; Tran, Victor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Sherbrooke Univ., Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1820

Abstract

This paper describes two initiatives aiming at improving code reusability for programming mobile robots: robotflow/flowdesigner, a data-flow programming environment; MARIE (mobile and autonomous robotics integration environment), a programming environment allowing multiple applications, programs and tools, to operate on one or multiple machines/OS and work together on a mobile robot implementation. Robotflow/flowdesigner´s objective is to provide a modular, graphical programming environment that would help visualize and understand what is really happening in the robot´s control loops, sensors, actuators, by using graphical probes. MARIE aims at avoiding making an exclusive choice on particular programming tools, making it possible to reuse code and applications.

Keywords

codes; mobile robots; robot programming; software reusability; software tools; code reusability tool; graphical programming; mobile and autonomous robotics integration environment; mobile robots programming; robotflow flowdesigner; Application software; Data engineering; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Mathematical programming; Mobile robots; Programming environments; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8463-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2004.1389661

Filename

1389661