Proceedings of the first international workshop on domain-specific languages for robotic systems (DSLRob 2010)

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the discussions and topics from the first international workshop on domain-specific languages and models tailored for robotic systems, highlighting their importance in improving programming productivity and system specification.

Contribution

It introduces the focus of the workshop on DSLs and models for robotics, emphasizing their role in addressing complex system challenges and advancing the field.

Findings

DSLs increase programmer productivity in robotics.

Models provide high-level system specification.

Workshop fosters research and collaboration in domain-specific robotics languages.

Abstract

The First International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems (DSLRob'10) was held at the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'10), October 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. The main topics of the workshop were domain-specific languages and models. A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language dedicated to a particular problem domain that offers specific notations and abstractions that increase programmer productivity within that domain. Models offer a high-level way for domain users to specify the functionality of their system at the right level of abstraction. DSLs and models have historically been used for programming complex systems. However recently they have garnered interest as a separate field of study. Robotic systems blend hardware and software in a holistic way that intrinsically raises many crosscutting concerns (concurrency, uncertainty, time constraints, ...), for which reason, traditional general-purpose languages often lead to a poor fit between the language features and the implementation requirements. DSLs and models offer a powerful, systematic way to overcome this problem, enabling the programmer to quickly and precisely implement novel software solutions to complex problems within the robotics domain.