Paper Info
Title
Toward Concrete Representation in Visual Languages for Robot Control
Abstract
The application of visual programming techniques to the problem of robot control has recently begun to receive considerable attention, partly due to the impetus provided by an annual robot programming competition conducted at the Visual Languages Conferences. We report on several approaches to this problem which range from applying a general-purpose visual programming language, Prograph, as one would apply any language to a programming problem, to an implementation of two special-purpose languages based on a model for robot control. Although these investigations have led towards increasingly direct domain-specific visualisations, the resulting systems provide concrete representation and direct manipulation only of abstract structures. We conjecture that the most appropriate level at which to program robot control, is the level at which the robot and its environment are concretely represented and directly manipulated. We propose a framework in which such a system might be achieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1006/jvlc.1998.0077
Journal of Visual Languages & Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual programming language,robot control
Fifth-generation programming language,Social robot,Robot control,Programming language,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Inductive programming,Personal robot,Visual programming language,Control flow analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
2
1045-926X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.71
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philip T. Cox118935.14
Christopher C. Risley281.06
Trevor J. Smedley316217.50