Re: Lisp and robotics

On Mar 7, 1:39 pm, Ron Garret <rNOSPA...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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John <slawmas...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm in the robotics club at my university and would like to try doing
some work with Lisp instead of all C/C++ like we've been doing. My
thought was that we'd have C code to interface with the sensors and
motors on a low level such as 'set left motor to 50% speed', then use
Lisp to do the rest. Can anyone who has worked with Lisp on robots
share your experiences? I'd like to find out how it worked for
everyone else.

There was a significant community of Lisping roboteers in the late 80's
and early 90's. IMHO it can still be used very effectively, but not
exclusively. Since a significant part of robotics nowadays is
essentially real-time image processing, Lisp is probably not the best
choice. But it can still be used quite effectively as the sequencing
and deliberative components of a three-layer architecture (not to be
confused with three-layer architectures for web servers. This is a
completely different animal. Seehttp://robotics.usc.edu/~maja/teaching/cs584/papers/tla.pdf)

rg

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