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Re: Design
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:57:58 GMT
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PeterBalch <PETERBALCH@COMPUSERVE.nomorespamCOM>
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> I'd really like to find out what techniques/notations people
> are using to design their robots and code.
For designing robots, I just search the web to see what other people have
done. As Tom Lehrer said "Plagiarise, plagiarise - but always call it
Reseach".
For the software for mobile robots, I don't think anything beats Rodney
Brooks's subsumption architecture. I draw little diagrams like the ones
that his group draws. Then I do what he suggests: start at the bottom with
the most primitive behaviours and work up. (BTW, I don't think that
approach works for industrial robots.)
My experience is that the overall architecture of robot software is easy.
Getting the low-level stuff to work is what's hard. I don't think there are
any people in the world who have got enough of the low-level stuff working
that they have a big problem integrating it all together.
Most people are happy if their robot can get from A to B without getting
stuck behind the sofa. And that includes 99% of universities. Sure, NASA
may talk about building self-repairing robots that can diagnose their own
faults but no-one has actually built a real robot complicated enough to
benefit from that kind of philosophising. It's fun to speculate but it's a
futile daydream until we've got robots that actually work.
I'm particularly interested in robot-programming languages, especially
languages and HCIs for non-programmers or beginners. I've found the only
way is to write the user interface and try it out.
Peter
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| (...) Better call it "inspiration" :) (...) Have a look at (URL) and (URL) to find more or less complex LEGO robots partly programmed according to the subsumption architecture. (...) Depends on the language. If you are doing things with LabVIEW, (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Design
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| (...) For info on some Robots that seem to work see: (URL) of the US Lugnet people (which I think is most of you?) seen any of these? Thomas (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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