An agent-based approach for programming mobile robots

Abstract

Agent-based programming offers a different way of looking at the programming problem. Instead of a sequential organization of functions, procedures, or routines, the user thinks in terms of small software units interacting in parallel. In this paper we present an agent based programming language called SAL (the SmartyCat Agent Language) developed for programming mobile robots. In particular we discuss how SAL is implemented and used for programming a Cybermotion K2A robot, called SmartyCat. A brief description of SmartyCat is given. The features and constructs of SAL are discussed. It is discussed how SAL is used for programming a mobile robot.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>