The research reported in this paper proposes a new approach to collaborative robots that
aims at improving the simplicity and efficiency of the programming task for non-technical …

Programming robotic systems is often a challenging task requiring advanced skills,
especially when the goal is to ensure loosely-coupled coordination in heterogeneous Multi …

Industrial workplaces increasingly require end-users to create programs for embedded
systems, but little expert scrutiny has been devoted to studying this domain. As a result …

The paradigm shift triggered by Industry 4.0 leads to a fast rising number of industrial
machinery and collaborative robots that increases the need for flexible customization of …

Block-based programming environments, already popular in computer science education,
have been successfully used to make programming accessible to end-users in domains like …

Block-based programming languages like Scratch are increasingly popular for programming
education and end-user programming. Recent program analyses build on the insight that …

The introduction of block-based programming has gradually changed the landscape of
programming education, particularly for school children. Block languages today, however …

Adapting the behavior of robots and their interaction with other machines on the shop floor is
typically accomplished by non-programmers. Often these non-programmers use visual …

Newly released robot programming tools have made it feasible for end‐users to program
industrial robots by combining block‐based languages and lead‐through programming. To …

Programming industrial robots is difficult and expensive. Although recent work has made
substantial progress in making it accessible to a wider range of users, it is often limited to …