Programming frameworks for development of robot controllers

pol Article in Polish DOI: 10.14313/PAR_215/5

send Cezary Zieliński *, Tomasz Kornuta ** * Przemysłowy Instytut Automatyki i Pomiarów PIAP ** Instytut Automatyki i Informatyki Stosowanej, Politechnika Warszawska

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The constantly increasing diversity of types of robot and sensors opens new fields of applications. This affects the demand for tools facilitating their programming. This article focuses on the programming tools for development of high-level robotic controllers. It briefly discusses the evolution of methods of robot programming, starting from specialized languages, specialized libraries of functions for general purpose programming languages, ending up on robot programming frameworks. In particular, it presents a number of popular programming frameworks, enabling the creation of complex robot controllers.

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programming frameworks, robot controllers, robot programming languages, robot programming methods

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