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cljRobust - Clojure Programming API for Lego Mindstorms NXT

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Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2010)

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This paper presents the cljRobust - middleware library, which allows an intelligent control application to be written for Lego Mindstorms NXT. cljRobust is based on Clojure, which is a modern, concurrent dialect of the Lisp language. It shortens the distance between deliberative, symbolic processing and hardware. In this way, cljRobust facilitates the writing of control algorithms which operate close to the hardware layer, and thus are able to quickly respond to changes in the environment. Since Lego robots have been adopted by many leading academic centers all over the world as a standard tool for teaching robotics, the author hopes the cljRobust library may also be found as an interesting teaching aid in AI robotics.

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  1. Institute of Automatics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Konrad KuĊ‚akowski

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  1. Gdynia Maritime University, 81-221, Gdynia, Poland

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  2. Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  3. University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlet

  4. University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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KuĊ‚akowski, K. (2010). cljRobust - Clojure Programming API for Lego Mindstorms NXT. In: Jędrzejowicz, P., Nguyen, N.T., Howlet, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6071. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13541-5_6

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