Supporting hierarchical robot programming in integrated development environment (IDE) of Open Platform for Robotic Services (OPRoS)

There are many platforms for robot S/W applications. To reduce the complexity of robot programming, components, the units of robot software for building and recycling source, are employed, and there are several component-based platforms. As components are the lowest units of robot S/W, there are several levels above them to convey the user´s intentions to a robot. There are the application level, task level, and content/service level. This paper introduces robot programming levels which are interchangeable and recyclable. Also integrated development environments are presented to support the robot programming levels in Open Platform for Robotic Services.