Programming behaviour of a personal service robot with application to healthcare

Authors:
Chandan Datta;Bruce A. MacDonald;Chandimal Jayawardena;I-Han Kuo
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand;Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Venue:
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We propose an approach for developing applications on a personal healthcare service robot. We have developed a model of representing robot behaviour through a domain specific language (DSL) and enabling authoring through a Visual Programming Environment (VPE), RoboStudio. RoboStudio is to be used by robot designers, developers and domain experts for developing social robotics behaviour in a healthcare environment. The method for authoring is visual in order to convey the robot's decision logic and interaction behaviour in a more intuitive manner while retaining expressiveness. In the paper, we discuss current progress we have made in raising the level of abstraction in service application development. This will help the robotics community to make significant investment in developing programming infrastructures, better programming language support and enhancing existing programming languages through simpler syntax and expressive semantics.