Evaluating a reactive semantics for robotics
Geoffrey Biggs, Bruce A. MacDonald · 2008
A key part of programming a robotic system is specifying the responses to events that the robot may encounter. This is provided by a new language, RADAR. This paper proposes evaluating robot programming systems work by: a formalisation of the semantics, an evaluation in terms of criteria that determine a languagepsilas suitability for programming, and a small user study to test the readability of programs written using the semantics. The evaluation of the reactivity semantics found in the RADAR language shows clear benefits for programmers.