In earlier work (presented at the last WG 2.11 meeting), I presented an initial effort at facilitating software development for modular self-reconfigurable robots (robots that can change their own shape). Concretely, we have developed a virtual machine and a DSL that supports role-oriented programming for the ATRON self-reconfigurable robot. These first-generation tools had however not yet been subjected to practical usage by roboticists.

In this talk, I will present the evolution of the virtual machine and programming language into (1) a number of operating-system level services running on the ATRON robot and (2) an interactive robot programming tool that allows incremental development of a controller starting from manual remote control and leading to a fully autonomous controller.

-- Main.UlrikSchultz - 06 Jun 2008