Intermediate Programming Methodologies for Manipulating Modern Humanoid Robots

The futurefor roboticsin today's world is clear. We must automate our manufacturing processes to remain competitive in the global marketplace. Modern robotics is an important part of that automation. Humanoids, a more recent development in robotics, have a host of capabilities that may reveal potential new uses in industry and modern engineering education. This paper describes how one may advance from a beginning user of an NAO robot to that of an intermediate user of the Choregraphe development software. The authors seek to bridge the gap between the available documentation for the novice and the advanced users/programmers of the NAO humanoid platform within the Choregraphe user environment. The NAO platform was utilized due to its high impact of use by more than 13,000 educators and researchers from more than 70 countries worldwide [1].