Simple Programming Language for Creating a Simulation Environment with Mobile Robots

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple programming language that is a kind of functional concise script for creating a simulation environment with mobile robots as a 3D software toolkit for education. Most robotics simulation toolkits require professional knowledge regarding development language and their APIs, and these prerequisites present a significant obstacle in implementing robotics simulations. In order to resolve these problems, we adopted a functional concise script composed of simplified service commands and minimum options to build a simulation environment. In experiments, we educated high school students and teachers on how to use the proposed robot simulation creation toolkit, and then verified that they could build a robotics simulation environment and control simulated robots easily in a two-day training course.