Prolog – Mindstorms (I)

The last friday, I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 – THANKS! Unfortunately, I lack the necessary power supply in form of 6AA batteries. Clearly, I went to my favorite retailer – Amazon – and ordered a couple of rechargeable ones (including the recharger).

Since my mind is somehow attached to Prolog, I asked myself would it be possible to do the mind-storming in Prolog … so I fired up the information retrieval engine of the day … and hit:

1. [English] New Mexico State University: Building and Programming Robots
   http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~tson/classes/fall03-579/schedule.htm
2. [German] University of Potsdam: Programmieren in Prolog
   http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/wv/03SS/aktuell.html#SECTION00051000000000000000
3. [German] Toni Gläser: LEGOLOG - Lego Mindstorms und ein Golog-Planer Eine Einführung und ein Überblick über das Konzept und die
   Programmierung sowie die Implementation von Aufgaben für
   den Roboter
   http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~brase/Paper/studienarbeit_Prolog.pdf
4. [English] Fermé and Gaspar: RCX+PROLOG
   A platform to use Lego Mindstorms™ Robots in
   Artificial Intelligence courses
   http://dme.uma.pt/ferme/Papers/Ferme-Gaspar07.pdf
5. [English] University of Toronto: Cognitive Robotics
   http://www.cs.toronto.edu/cogrobo/main/systems/index.html
6. [English] Nalepa: Prototype Prolog API for Mindstorms NXT
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/9r47108w18835742/

Clearly, I will inspect some of these resources soon to see what’s in the Lego Prolog toolbox. Until then happy robot-building.