SPLASH 2016 (series) / SPLASH 2016 Student Research Competition /
End-User Software Engineering of Cognitive Robot Applications using Procedural Parameters and Complex Event Processing
Robots understand the world around them through sensing. To process the data produced by sensors we propose to use Procedural Parameters and Complex Event Processing (CEP). End-users model applications for robots as a CEP Graph, in which the end-users specify how input from the sensors of the robot is transformed to output for the actuators of the robot. Between input and output is a network of streams connected together by operators. By using Procedural Parameters a set of generic operators can be used within the CEP Graph. The CEP Graph can be executed on the robot or on a PC remotely controlling the robot.