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Concurrent Pascal as a robot level language – a suggestion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Adolfo Steiger-Carçao  and
L. M. Camarinha-Matos
Adolfo Steiger-Carçao
Affiliation:
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Informatica, Quinta da Torre-2825 Monte Caparica, (Portugal)
L. M. Camarinha-Matos
Affiliation:
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Informatica, Quinta da Torre-2825 Monte Caparica, (Portugal)
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Abstract

SUMMARY

This paper briefly describes actual robot level programming languages, focusing on their intrinsic limitations when compared with traditional concurrent programming languages or when used for robotic systems/flexible production workshops programming, and not only for an isolated manipulator control.

To reduce such limitations, a suggestion is made to base the development of robotic programming systems on already existing concurrent languages (Concurrent Pascal, Modula-2), taking into account their built-in extension facilities for fastening the incorporation of (or easy interfacing with) existing packages or products already developed in robotics (robot models, CAD systems, vision systems, etc).

Using such languages as a support base for a robotic station programming environment, with access to different components developed separately, will allow a better understanding of the inter-relations among components and their limitations when faced with an integration perspective.

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Robotica , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 269 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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