Title: A simple script language for choreography of multiple, synchronizing non-anthropomorphic robots,
Abstract: The scripting language described in this document is (in the first place)
intended to be used on robots developed by Anja M{\o}lle Lindelof and Henning
Christiansen as part of a research project about robots performing on stage.
The target robots are expected to appear as familiar domestic objects that
take their own life, so to speak, and perhaps perform together with human
players, creating at illusion of a communication between them. In the current
version, these robots' common behaviour is determined uniquely by a script
written in the language described here -- the only possible autonomy for the
robots is action to correct dynamically for inaccuracies that arise during a
performance.
The present work is preliminary and has not been compared to properly to
other research work in this area, and the testing is still limited. A first
implementation on small Lego Mindstorms based robots is under development by
Mads Saustrup Fox as part of his master thesis work.