A Programmer's Assistant for a Special-Purpose Dataflow Language.

Abstract

A programming tool, the Graph Design Assistant (GDA), for a special-purpose dataflow language was designed and implemented. The motivation for the effort was the need to construct a robot simulation facility which will assist in the development of effective algorithms to plan and control robot movements. An Evans and Sutherland PS300 graphic workstation is used to display animated robot simulations. The Graph Design Assistant was developed so that researchers could program robot simulations on the PS300 without having to learn the intricacies of the PS300's dataflow language. The Graph Design Assistant was implemented on a 'Lisp machine' using a knowledge engineering tool. The result of the effort was a prototype system to be used as the basis for further development. (Thesis). keywords: Automatic Programming, Dataflow, Program Transformation System, Robot Simulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA164122

Entities

People

  • Alan J. Black

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic Programming
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Simulations
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools

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  • Engineering

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  • Computer Science.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy