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Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) pp 237–242Cite as

Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk

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There is little software and hardware support for the structure of computations in robots, which is inherently parallel and distributed. This article describes the Agora distributed, parallel software/hardware computing architecture primarily intended for autonomous robotics, and how the software part of the architecture can be realised with simple extensions to object oriented programming. The Squeak open source Smalltalk implementation is used for this purpose. The advantages of the Smalltalk environment for robot software development are discussed. In addition we describe the use of Smalltalk as a vehicle for robotics education.

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  1. School of Software Engineering and Data Communication Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

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  1. Dept. of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, University of Fukui, Bunkyo 3-9-1, 910-8507, Fukui, Japan

    Kazuyuki Murase , Kosuke Sekiyama  & Tomohide Naniwa ,  & 

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, 192-0397, Hachioji Tokyo, Japan

    Naoyuki Kubota

  3. Faculty of Information Technology School of Software Engineering & Data Communication, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 001 Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

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Sitte, J. (2006). Robotics and Robotics Education with Smalltalk. In: Murase, K., Sekiyama, K., Naniwa, T., Kubota, N., Sitte, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29344-2_35

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