Analyzing and Designing a Domain Specific Language to Describe Structure and Movement of Linkages

This research has been prepared in the field of linkage structures and their movements. A linkage is a set of line segments that can be interconnected via their ends, which exhibits numerous usages in modeling robot arms. To date, various domain-specific languages have been introduced in the field of robot movements. In spite that some of the capabilities of these languages combined with general-purpose languages can be used to describe and create the movements of these linkages and their structures, yet they cannot be considered domain-specific languages for explaining the linkages and their movements. The domain-specific languages are programs that raise the level of abstraction, the ability to understand better, accelerating the development and requires less effort to learn relevant knowledge that will provide the same advantages. So like all software, have levels such as analysis, design, implementation, testing, maintenance and support. Therefore, in this paper, we attempt to analyze and design a domain-specific language and describe and create linkage movements and their structures. By using this domain specific language, there is no limit to the definition of simple linkages in terms of it’s number. Also, by defining the modules and their sequential and parallel combinations, the final movements of the linkages are generated, and by using the features of the language, the terms needed to start or terminate each final movements are defined. Applying this kind of attitude to specific general-purpose modeling, in addition to providing ease in defining the structure of linkages and diversity in their initial definition, allows for the coordination and collaboration of multiple robots to perform a single task and then implemented in the next step.