Visual Programming of Subsumption - Based Reactive Behaviour

• Main Authors: Philip T. Cox, Omid Banyasad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-11-01
• Series: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
• Subjects: Visual programming; Direct manipulation; Demonstration; Subsumption; Reactive behaviour
• Online Access: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/visual_programming_of_subsumption_-_based_reactive_behaviour

General purpose visual programming languages (VPLs) promote the construction of programs that are more comprehensible, robust, and maintainable by enabling programmers to directly observe and manipulate algorithms and data. However, they usually do not exploit the visual representation of entities in the problem domain, even if those entities and their interactions have obvious visual representations, as is the case in the robot control domain. We present a formal control model for autonomous robots, based on subsumption, and use it as the basis for a VPL in which reactive behaviour is programmed via interactions with a simulation.