Many tasks for autonomous agents or robots are best de- scribed by a specification of the environment and a specification of the available actions the agent or robot can perform. Combining such a specification with the possibility to imper- atively program a robot or agent is what we call the action- based imperative programming. One of the most successful such approaches is Golog. In this paper, we draft a proposal for a new robot programming language YAGI, which is based on the action-based imperative programming paradigm. Our goal is to design a small, portable stand-alone YAGI interpreter. We combine the benefits of a principled domain specification with a clean, small and simple programming language, which does not exploit any side-effects from the implementation language. We discuss general requirements of action-based programming languages and outline YAGI, our action-based language approach which particularly aims at embeddability.

Action-Based Imperative Programming with YAGI / Alexander, Ferrein; Gerald, Steinbauer; Vassos, Stavros. - (2012), pp. 24-31.

Action-Based Imperative Programming with YAGI

VASSOS, STAVROS
2012

Abstract

Many tasks for autonomous agents or robots are best de- scribed by a specification of the environment and a specification of the available actions the agent or robot can perform. Combining such a specification with the possibility to imper- atively program a robot or agent is what we call the action- based imperative programming. One of the most successful such approaches is Golog. In this paper, we draft a proposal for a new robot programming language YAGI, which is based on the action-based imperative programming paradigm. Our goal is to design a small, portable stand-alone YAGI interpreter. We combine the benefits of a principled domain specification with a clean, small and simple programming language, which does not exploit any side-effects from the implementation language. We discuss general requirements of action-based programming languages and outline YAGI, our action-based language approach which particularly aims at embeddability.
2012
Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent Agents; Reasoning about Action and Change; Action-based Programming; Robot Behavior and Control; Golog
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Action-Based Imperative Programming with YAGI / Alexander, Ferrein; Gerald, Steinbauer; Vassos, Stavros. - (2012), pp. 24-31.
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