Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In this research we develop an extension to connect the visual programming language Scratch with ROS enabled robots, allowing rapid development and prototyping of front-end interfaces intended for robot programming at a WYSIWYG manner. This is a powerful tool for making use of human annotation in higher level reasoning and workflow design for real world task execution and custom optimization. Leaving the algorithm design to the end users is a practical and reliable form for successful task execution, and the use of visual programming interfaces is crucial for this to be an inclusive solution with almost no previous knowledge requirements. The developed extension allows easy implementation and prototyping of such interfaces by making use of both the pre-build Scratch system and communication through ROS.
