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RE: JAVA and the handyboard
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Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:01:35 GMT
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Clint Laskowski <clint@robotic./avoidspam/com>
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I found my info on the Bali paper:
Title: The BALI Development Environment for Small Mobile Robots
Author: Willie Lim, Future Minds, Inc., William Y-P. Lim, wlim@ai.mit.edu
Pages: 11
Presented: Mobile Robots X Conference (SPIE Conference 2591) in
Philidelphia, Oct. 1995.
Below is a copy of a posting by Wm. Lim to two mailing lists back in
December 1995.
I hope this helps. I've reformatted the FTP URL and the file is still
there.
If anyone has an update on BALI, or if Wm. Lim is listening, we'd all
appreciate an update!
-- Clint
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Subject: Bali (Java-based Development Enviornment for Mobile Robots)
Sent: 12/23/95 17:11
Received: 12/23/95 12:34
From: William Y-P. Lim, wlim@ai.mit.edu
To: aimr@ai.mit.edu, rbl@ai.mit.edu
I would like to share my ideas (no usable implementation yet) on a
Java-based development environment for (small) mobile robots with the
mobots community. Below is a plain text version of the abstract of a
paper presented at the October 1995 SPIE Mobile Robots X conference. This
abstract and the full paper and slides (in Postscript format) is
available as through FTP:
<ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/bali.tar.Z> <--- reformatted URL
By announcing the ideas for Bali, I hope that Bali (or something like
it) will follow the path of GNU Emacs and grow into a free, easily
available, and useful mobot development environment through the open,
collaborative efforts of mobots hackers on the Internet.
Thanks to Rod Brooks for providing the ftp.ai.mit.edu access.
Willie
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Presented at the Mobile Robots X Conference (SPIE Conference 2591) in
Philadelphia, Oct. 1995.
The BALI Development Environment for Small Mobile Robots
Willie Lim
Future Minds, Inc.
ABSTRACT
The design and prototyping of a development environment, called BALI,
for a small robot, viz., the MIT 6.270 robot, is presented in this
paper. BALI is being developed and used for research work using a
6.270-based robot. Building on the experience with IC (Interactive-C)
for programming the 6.270 robot and new technologies like Java, a more
powerful and low cost robot development environment is possible. The
goal of BALI is to provide a flexible, customizable, and extensible
development environment so that robot researchers can quickly tailor
BALI to their robots. Given that the 6.270 robot is really a building
kit made up of LEGO blocks (or similar kinds of physical building
blocks), the 68HC11-based motherboard, and a variety of sensors, BALI
cannot be specially built for one "instance" of the 6.270 robot.
Rather the guiding principles for building BALI should be to provide
the GUI (Graphical User Interface) "primitives" from which one can
assemble and build his or her development environment. Thus GUI
primitives for displaying status information, sensor readings, robot
orientation, and environment maps must be provided. Much of these
primitives are already provided in Java. It is the robot-specific
ones that have to be developed for BALI. The Java-like language that
forms the core of BALI is the main focus of this paper.
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