Property Mapping: A Simple Technique for Mobile Robot Programming

The mobile robot programming problem is a software engineering challenge that is not easily conquered using contemporary software engineering best practices. We propose robot observability as a measure of the diagnostic transparency of a situated robot program, then describe property mapping as a simple, language-independent approach to implementing reliable robot programs by maximizing robot observability. Examples from realworld, working robots are given in Lisp and Java.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Illah R. Nourbakhsh
• Keywords: AAAI 2000, Intelligent Agents, Robot Observability, Robot Programs, Robots