The Roadmap and Challenges of Robot Programming Languages

Yang, Shuo; Mao, Xinjun; Ge, Binbin; Yang, Sen

doi:10.1109/smc.2015.69

Cited by 15 publications

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“…The evolution of robot programming techniques brought robot-oriented programming languages (Yang et al, 2015). They are high-level programming languages, primarily based on BASIC and PASCAL, such as the ABB Rapid, the Fanuc Karel and the Kuka KRL.…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hiding task-oriented programming complexity: an industrial case study

Villagrossi¹,

Delledonne²,

Faroni³

et al. 2023

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The ease of use of robot programming interfaces represents a barrier to robot adoption in several manufacturing sectors because of the need for more expertise from the end-users. Current robot programming methods are mostly the past heritage, with robot programmers reluctant to adopt new programming paradigms. This work aims to evaluate the impact on non-expert users of introducing a new task-oriented programming interface that hides the complexity of a programming framework based on ROS. The paper compares the programming performance of such an interface with a classic robot-oriented programming method based on a state-of-the-art robot teach pendant. An experimental campaign involved 22 non-expert users working on the programming of two industrial tasks. Task-oriented and robot-oriented programming showed comparable learning time, programming time and the number of questions raised during the programming phases, highlighting the possibility of a smooth introduction to task-oriented programming even to non-expert users.

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Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hiding task-oriented programming complexity: an industrial case study

Villagrossi¹,

Delledonne²,

Faroni³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Meld [4] is a logic programming language to enable global programming for an ensemble of robots. A survey on programming challenges for robots can be found in [25]. Among these efforts, our design is more aligned with the higher-level languages with a focus on adaptation support.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Variables for Declarative UAV Planning

Burns

Liang

Liu

2020

Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming and Advanced Modularity

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an important subset of autonomous robotics, offering unique opportunities in domains like merchandise delivery, geographical survey, and disaster recovery. The planning layer of UAVs is made up of high-level directives that instruct the system on how to achieve the plan's goals. UAVs execute their plans in the physical environment, and thus the plans must adapt to changes in the dynamic context. In this paper, we present a simple programming abstraction, adaptive variables, to declaratively define adaptation for UAV flight plans in a dynamic context. Building on top of a declarative language for expressing UAV flight plans, adaptive variables can change during a UAV flight based on predicates over physical data. We implement adaptive variable for Paparazzi and demonstrate its usefulness in adaptive UAV planning with the NPS Simulator. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages; • Computer systems organization → External interfaces for robotics.

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“…Robot programming languages are mostly developed by the robots' manufacturers. These languages are highly affected by the robot´s hardware and software technology [5]. Most programming languages designate sets of instructions, which although different in syntax, have several common properties.…”

Section: A Programming Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application for automatic programming of palletizing robots

Moura

Silva

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)

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Current market demands require several degrees of flexibility, speed, and repetitiveness of manufacture and logistic processes. Considering that a fourth industrial revolution is to be expected in a near future -which is highly based on smart machines, storage systems, and production facilities that cooperate to allow dynamic businesses and engineering processes -robotics presents itself as an increasingly sought-after solution, since it is often associated with such concepts. Hence, it is of no wonder that the worldwide operational stock of industrial robots has been increasing in a steady pace for the past decades and is expected to progress in such a trend. Within the several activities for robots on industrial applications, handling operations are regarded as predominant on the European market. Subsequently, palletizing applications are amongst the handling operations that have played an important role in the end stages of modern supply chains. In this context, this work aims to contextualise and develop an application for palletizing robots. This application, together with an off-line programming software (RobotStudio), allows for automatic programming of a robot's palletizing functions. Developed in the robot's native language (RAPID), the application has a basic user interface written in XML and can provide different pallet patterns.

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The Roadmap and Challenges of Robot Programming Languages

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Hiding task-oriented programming complexity: an industrial case study

Hiding task-oriented programming complexity: an industrial case study

Adaptive Variables for Declarative UAV Planning

Application for automatic programming of palletizing robots

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