Building Languages for Self Rebuilding Robots • Ulrik Pagh Schultz • GOTO 2015

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Channel: GOTO Conferences · 2015 · Science & Technology

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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2015
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Ulrik Pagh Schultz - Associate Professor of Robotics and Software Engineering at University of Southern Denmark

ABSTRACT
Don't ask what robots can do for you, ask what you can do for robotics!
Robotic systems blend hardware and software in a holistic way that raises many crosscutting concerns (concurrency, time constraints, safety, ...), for which reason general-purpose [...]

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TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
3:41 A: The robot building kit (*)
6:00 Robot building kit?
7:15 Resilient & Adaptable
9:13 Programmable matter
10:52 This talk: ATRON robot programming (before taking it to Mars)
12:44 Robotics programming
17:17 Domain-specific languages
22:59 First language prototype: Everything's an object?
24:35 #2: Roles for shapes, functions for functionality?
26:59 Roles for functionality!
29:33 #4: The insight: One program distributed across the robot
34:12 #4 (details): Properties [1/2], Robustness and efficiency
35:00 #4 (details): Properties (2/2) Program reversibility
38:12 Industrial robots
40:46 DSL for Reversible Assembly Sequences
41:35 Agricultural robots
42:44 Unmanned Aerial Systems (i.e., flying robots aka drones)
44:26 Lightweight energy efficient robots

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