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Lego Mindstorms has delivered low-cost amateur robotics to the public, where anyone can easily modify and develop new systems and extensions to extend its capabilities. However, no one has previously attempted to link a 4th generation agent-oriented language such as NetLogo with Mindstorms robots in order to provide an agent-oriented development environment along with simulation and modelling capabilities. This paper describes the development of middleware which can be used to control a Mindstorms robot via a NetLogo model which provides body-syntonic capabilities for real-time sensor feeds and robot commands to make and enact decisions. A couple of example NetLogo models to demonstrate the capabilities of this system (line-following ability and subsumption architecture roaming) have been developed and are described in this paper.
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Papert was the original designer of NetLogo’s parent language, Logo.
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Aslam, S.K., Faithful, W.J., Teahan, W.J. (2018). A Middleware to Link Lego Mindstorms Robots with 4th Generation Language Software NetLogo. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence XXXV. SGAI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11311. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04191-5_34
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