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Construction of a translator for robot-programming languages

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The paper describes a method for construction and implementation of a translator for robotic programming languages using compiler-compilers. Starting from the standard robotic programming language PASRO, a new robotic language is formed, as well as a translator from the newly-formed language into the symbolic robot language of the robot control system EDUC-NET, using the compiler-compiler COCO-2. A comparative analysis of the application of different compiler-compilers (COCO-2 and LEX-YACC) for translator construction is presented.

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Racković, M. Construction of a translator for robot-programming languages. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 15, 209–232 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00125494

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