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Carleton University - School of Computer Science Undergraduate Honours Project Fall 2012 Robot Simulator Darryl Hill 
ABSTRACT The robot programming class, comp4807, gives students the opportunity to use actual robots. Unfortunately, using real robots comes at a price, both literally and figuratively. There are a limited number of real robots. As a result you can only program them during lab time, and the lab time is partitioned so that everyone can have access. Also the robots that are in use in comp4807 use a custom language, Spin, that only only runs on robot hardware (specifically the Parallax processor). So time spent developing code in an environment where you can get actual feedback is at a premium. The robot simulator project seeks to address this issue, by using robot simulated in java code that behaves as an actual robot would (or tolerably close). The behaviour of this simulated robot is programmable in Spin code, which means it comes with a custom lexer/parser/compiler in order to translate Spin commands into java commands that the simulated robot can understand. It seeks to be identical behaviour-wise to an actual robot running the same Spin code. |
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