{"title":"Using scheme to control simulated modular robots","authors":"U. Schultz","doi":"10.1145/2661103.2661114","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Self-reconfigurable, modular robots are distributed mechatronic devices that can change their physical shape; modules are programmed individually but must coordinate across the robot. Programming modular robots is difficult due to the complexity of programming a distributed embedded system with a dynamically evolving topology. We are currently experimenting with programming-language abstractions to help overcome these difficulties. This tutorial describes a few such experiments using Scheme to control simulated modular robots.","PeriodicalId":113092,"journal":{"name":"Scheme and Functional Programming","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scheme and Functional Programming","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2661103.2661114","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Self-reconfigurable, modular robots are distributed mechatronic devices that can change their physical shape; modules are programmed individually but must coordinate across the robot. Programming modular robots is difficult due to the complexity of programming a distributed embedded system with a dynamically evolving topology. We are currently experimenting with programming-language abstractions to help overcome these difficulties. This tutorial describes a few such experiments using Scheme to control simulated modular robots.