The Roadmap and Challenges of Robot Programming Languages

Great attentions have been put on the programming technologies to construct robot software in both academic research and industry due to the increasingly wide applications of robots in various areas, and potential challenges resulting from the complexity of robot software. In the past years, diverse programming technologies and languages have been designed to support the development of robot software. However, with robot applications and requirements change, to develop robot software remains a great challenge, especially when robots are widely used in open environment and expected to provide better and friendly services for human beings. This paper aims at analyzing the technical requirements for designing robot programming language, presenting the roadmap of the robot programming language and discussing its trends and potential challenges.