Paper Info
Title
Legodroid: A Type-Driven Library for Android and LEGO Mindstorms Interoperability.
Abstract
LEGO Mindstorms robots are widely used as educational tools to acquire skills in programming complex systems involving the interaction of sensors and actuators, and they offer a flexible and modular workbench to design and evaluate user-machine interaction prototypes in the robotic area. However, there is still a lack of support to interoperability features and the need of high-level tools to program the interaction of a robot with other devices. In this paper, we introduce Legodroid, a new Java library enabling cross-programming LEGO Mindstorms robots through Android smartphones that exploits their combined computational and sensorial capabilities in a seamless way. The library provides a number of type-driven coding patterns for interacting with sensors and motors. In this way, the robustness of the software managing robot's sensors dramatically improves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20071926
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Android,LEGO mindstorms,EV3,type-driven development,design patterns
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alvise Spanò100.34
Agostino Cortesi279166.19