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Subject: 
Design
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Date: 
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:45:16 GMT
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Hi all,

I'd really like to find out what techniques/notations people are using to design
their robots and code.

For my code, I always use a Jackson Structured Process (JSP) chart, which does
have other names but you can see:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1020000/1010821/p78-shaw.pdf?key1=1010821&key2=6511533311&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=61761062&CFTOKEN=89489253

if you wish.

For the robot itself I'm much less organised using a 'try it and see' approach
where I have a (vague) idea in my mind what its going to look like. Does anyone
use sofwtare for their robot design?

Thomas



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Design
 
(...) OK, I feel somewhat silly stating this out loud, but... I think about the problem a lot, usually while mowing the lawn or driving to/from work. Once I have a possible solution roughed out in my head, I start building parts of the robot to see (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Design
 
I imagine that if I were to ever design a robot's functions on paper first, I'd probably use a finite state machine, since FSMs map to events pretty well. The robot's functions would have to be complex enough to make it worth it, though. For code, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)

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