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An Iconic Programming Language for Sensor-Based Robots

Matthew Gertz, David B. Stewart, and Pradeep Khosla
Workshop Paper, 6th Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR '92), August, 1992

Abstract

In this paper we describe an iconic programming language called Onika for sensor-based robotic systems. Onika is both modular and reconfigurable and can be used with any system architecture and real-time operating system. Onika is also a multi-level programming environment wherein tasks are built by connecting a series of icons which, in turn, can be defined in terms of other icons at the lower levels. Expert users are also allowed to use control block form to define servo tasks. The icons in Onika are both shape and color coded, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, thus providing a form of error control in the development of high level applications.

BibTeX

@workshop{Gertz-1992-13406,
author = {Matthew Gertz and David B. Stewart and Pradeep Khosla},
title = {An Iconic Programming Language for Sensor-Based Robots},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 6th Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR '92)},
year = {1992},
month = {August},
}