International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (Nov 2008)

Visual Programming of Subsumption-Based Reactive Behaviour

  • Omid Banyasad,
  • Philip T. Cox

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5772/6226
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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General purpose visual programming languages (VPLs) promote the construction of programs that are more comprehensible, robust, and maintainable by enabling programmers to directly observe and manipulate algorithms and data. However, they usually do not exploit the visual representation of entities in the problem domain, even if those entities and their interactions have obvious visual representations, as is the case in the robot control domain. We present a formal control model for autonomous robots, based on subsumption, and use it as the basis for a VPL in which reactive behaviour is programmed via interactions with a simulation.