robot-brains 0.1.0

FTC alternative robot programming language

robot-brains

FTC "easy robot programming" alternative to Blockly (overly simple with no support for modules) and Java (vastly too complicated with no real support for robot programming).

Goals

• First, and foremost, easy to program.

  • This is targeted at high school students who have never programmed before.

• Modularity

  • Allow the program to be represented as a set of independent bite-sized modules.

  • Allow re-use of modules across different programs (FTC "opmodes").

  • Support the creation of team libraries that can be re-used from season to season.

    • This allows teams to capture and reuse what they've learned, so that they can continually improve from one season to the next.

• Direct support for State Machines.

  • Often robot autonomous routines are diagrammed as state machines with chains of actions linked together, branching at decision points.

  • This language directly supports that using Decision Logic Tables for the branching decision points, and labeled blocks of code for actions that are linked with simple "goto" statements.

    • This language has no stack, so infinite loops of gotos are directly supported.

• Autonomous programming is easy.

  • With no stack, it is very easy to run multiple autonomous threads concurrantly. For example, move forward 5 ft while raising the elevator 14 inches.