A High Level Real-Time Programming Language: October, 1984 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Davis, Ernest

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ISBN 10: 1332089828 ISBN 13: 9781332089826

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A High Level Real-Time Programming Language: October, 1984

User-defined functions Whldl are invoked on the right side of a bind or follow statement must be such that it makes sense to think of evaluating them instantaneously and continously. For example, if the function F had a side-effect of incrementing a global variable X by 1, then the statement would have to increment X infinitely often, Whld'l is not ameptable. We therefore define an instantaneous function as one where the only variables accessed are the argu ments (passed by value) and loml variables; and we require that only instantaneous functions be used on the right-hand side of a bind or follow statement.

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Introduction

We present here an outline of a robot programming language, COAL (COntinuous Action Language), together with a formal semantics. COAL is designed to support an abstraction of programming which can operate in a continuous fashion. Variables can change values continuously over time, execution can be instantaneously interrupted in response to an event, and so on. Such constructs must be implemented in terms of discrete steps, but COAL expresses the idealization behind the implementation, in the way that real arithmetic is the idealization behind floating point arithmetic. In this paper, we will describe the basic elements of COAL, define a formal semantics, and present a few typical programming examples. We have not yet addressed the question of implementation.

2. Overview of COAL

2.1. Variables:

COAL supports at least the following types of variables: booleans, integers, real valued vectors (elements of Rᵑ ), continuous functions from Rᵐ to Rᵑ (called "real functions"), and integer semaphores.

Certain global variables will be bound to the input and output devices of the particular robotic system. Sensor variables are associated with particular sensors. At each moment in time, the value of the variable is the current measurement of the sensor. Effector variables are associated with parameters of the robot's effectors. Changing the value of the variable causes a motion by the robot. Effector variables must therefore be generally changed continuously. The global variable clock always has the current time as its value.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332089828
• ISBN 13: 9781332089826
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
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