Buzz: 異種ロボット群れのための拡張可能なプログラミング言語
Buzz: An Extensible Programming Language for Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Robot Swarms
異種ロボット群れを自己組織化させるための新しいプログラミング言語Buzzを提案し、単体ロボットと群れ全体の両視点から振る舞いを記述できるプリミティブと、完全分散型ランタイムによる拡張性・スケーラビリティを実証した。
著者: Carlo Pinciroli, Adam Lee-Brown, Giovanni Beltrame
分類: cs.RO, cs.MA, cs.PL, cs.SE
原文アブストラクト
We present Buzz, a novel programming language for heterogeneous robot swarms. Buzz advocates a compositional approach, offering primitives to define swarm behaviors both from the perspective of the single robot and of the overall swarm. Single-robot primitives include robot-specific instructions and manipulation of neighborhood data. Swarm-based primitives allow for the dynamic management of robot teams, and for sharing information globally across the swarm. Self-organization stems from the completely decentralized mechanisms upon which the Buzz run-time platform is based. The language can be extended to add new primitives (thus supporting heterogeneous robot swarms), and its run-time platform is designed to be laid on top of other frameworks, such as Robot Operating System. We showcase the capabilities of Buzz by providing code examples, and analyze scalability and robustness of the run-time platform through realistic simulated experiments with representative swarm algorithms.
