REACT - A Third Generation Language For Autonomous Robot Systems
M. J. Longley, J. Owens, Charles R. Allen, Karl Ratcliff · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1990
REACT is a language under development at Newcastle for the programming of autonomous robot systems, which uses AI constructs and sensor information to respond to failures in assumptions about the real-world by replanning a task. This paper describes the important features of a REACT programmed robotic system, and the results of some initial studies made on defining an executive language using a concept called visiblity sets. Several examples from the language are then applied to specific examples e.g. a white line follower and a railway network controller. The applicability of visibility sets to autonomous robots is evaluated.