Altaira: Visual Languages Meet Reactive Robot Control
The New Mexico State University Submission to VPC'97
Welcome! Our approach to the Visual Programming Challenge was to develop a
rule-based language specifically for the control of small mobile robots.
While the language is admittedly special-purpose, within its intended domain
it is capable of a broad range of applications.
| A Brief Prelude |
An Unguided Tour |
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Solving Problems using Altaira
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*** The Teams ***
Altaira was implemented by a team of seven undergraduate and graduate
students in the NMSU Department of Computer Science under the direction of
Joe Pfeiffer. Four children (children of team members), ages seven to twelve,
helped with user testing. LegoMan served as our test driver.
Implementation Team
(Image links to team members' home pages. LegoMan links to a short movie of
the robot negotiating an intersection under Altaira's control -- 2.7 MB).
(not shown: Ward McGregor)
User Testers
(Image links to a short movie of kids at work -- 2 MB).
Thanks to Jeremy Grady
and Joel Votaw for help with
video and graphics
web page last updated on April 23, 1998