Bidirectional Data Exchange between C++ and Prolog for Robot Task Planning in the Hybrid Control Architecture

Abstract:

To realize hierarchical robot task planning in the hybrid deliberative/reactive control architecture, C++ and Prolog are integrated to implement qualitative reasoning and quantitative calculation. With respect to a typical case in service robot operation studies, two experiments are conducted to examine “Prolog loading C++ programs” and “C++ loading Prolog programs”. They get the results of unidirectional data transfer and bidirectional data transfer between the two kinds of software, respectively. The research method is extendable to different engineering applications and different Prolog development environments.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1039)
• Pages: 361-367
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1039.361
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Gui Xin Wu, Shuo Xu*, Da Wei Tu
• Keywords: C/C++, Data Exchange, Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Control Architecture, Hybrid Programming, Prolog, Robot Task Planning

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