NDLI: RoboFlow: A flow-based visual programming language for mobile manipulation tasks

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Alexandrova, S. Tatlock, Z. Cakmak, M.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (Alexandrova, S.; Tatlock, Z.; Cakmak, M.)
Abstract	General-purpose robots can perform a range of useful tasks in human environments; however, programming them to robustly function in all possible environments that they might encounter is unfeasible. Instead, our research aims to develop robots that can be programmed by its end-users in their context of use, so that the robot needs to robustly function in only one particular environment. This requires intuitive ways in which end-users can program their robot. To that end, this paper contributes a flow-based visual programming language, called RoboFlow, that allows programming of generalizable mobile manipulation tasks. RoboFlow is designed to (i) ensure a robust low-level implementation of program procedures on a mobile manipulator, and (ii) restrict the high-level programming as much as possible to avoid user errors while enabling expressive programs that involve branching, looping, and nesting. We present an implementation of RoboFlow on a PR2 mobile manipulator and demonstrate the generalizability and error handling properties of RoboFlow programs on everyday mobile manipulation tasks in human environments.
Starting Page	5537
Ending Page	5544
File Size	1020462
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479969234
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139973
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robots Visualization Programming profession Mobile communication Navigation Computer languages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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