The Markup Language as a Form of Description of the Robot’s Scene

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to show the possibilities offered by the use of markup language in the process of programming of the robot. In this paper, the author primarily focused on the problem of description of the objects’ arrangement on the robot’s scene. The XML format is selected among the various possibilities of using the markup language, due to the fact that most of the software for the simulation of manufacturing processes can export the virtual space configuration to the XML file. The XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a formal language that allows the representation of data structures in a way understandable to a human and suitable for machine processing. The other, significant advantage of the XML is that it is platform-independent language. Its structure is more understandable and much easier to learn than synthetic programming language, so it can be quickly acquired and used by a person who is not a programmer. In this paper, the focus has been mainly put on the presentation of the method and on the assumptions used in the examples given for a simple scene setup and simple manipulation tasks.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1036)
• Pages: 770-774
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1036.770
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Krzysztof Foit*
• Keywords: Markup Language, Programming, Robot, Robotics, Simulation

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