Towards Easy Robot Programming - Using DSLs, Code Generators and Software Product Lines

Johannes Baumgartl, Thomas Buchmann, Dominik Henrich, Bernhard Westfechtel

2013

Abstract

Programming robots is a complicated and time-consuming task. A robot is essentially a real-time, distributed embedded system. Often, control and communication paths within the system are tightly coupled to the actual physical configuration of the robot. Thus, programming a robot can hardly be achieved by experts of the domain in which the robot is used. In this paper we present an approach towards a domain specific language, which is intended to empower domain experts or even end users to specify robot programs with a dedicated background in programming techniques, but not with special knowledge in the robotics domain. Furthermore we introduce an idea to integrate a software product-line for a hardware and software transparent plug and play mechanism.

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Baumgartl J., Buchmann T., Henrich D. and Westfechtel B. (2013). Towards Easy Robot Programming - Using DSLs, Code Generators and Software Product Lines . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 548-554. DOI: 10.5220/0004585305480554


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@conference{icsoft-pt13,
author={Johannes Baumgartl and Thomas Buchmann and Dominik Henrich and Bernhard Westfechtel},
title={Towards Easy Robot Programming - Using DSLs, Code Generators and Software Product Lines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={548-554},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004585305480554},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - Towards Easy Robot Programming - Using DSLs, Code Generators and Software Product Lines
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Baumgartl J.
AU - Buchmann T.
AU - Henrich D.
AU - Westfechtel B.
PY - 2013
SP - 548
EP - 554
DO - 10.5220/0004585305480554