What language for robotics development

Languages commonly used in robot programming:

1. Hardware Description Languages (HDLs)

Hardware Description Languages are generally used to describe how electrical is programmed. These languages are quite familiar to some roboticists because they are used to programming in FPGAs. FPGAs allow you to develop electronic hardware without to actually produce a piece of silicon, which is a faster easier option for some development. If you're developing electronic prototypes, you'll probably never use HDLs, even so, it's important to understand this programming language because they're very different other programming languages. A key point: HDLs all operations are concurrent, rather than the sequential operations of processor-based programming languages.　　

2. Assembly　　

Assembly allows you to program in the 0 1 digits. Basically this is the lowest level programming language. Just recently, the lowest level of electronics required Assembly for programming. With the rise of Arduino others like microcontrollers, you can now use C/C++ to program easily at the bottom level. This means Assembly may become even more unnecessary for most roboticists.

3. MATLAB　

MATLAB the open source resources associated with it, such as Octave, are particularly popular with some robotics engineers, it is used to analyse data develop control systems. There is also a very popular robotics toolkit - MATLAB - I know some experts who have developed entire robotics systems using just MATLAB. If you want to analyse data, produce high-level images implement control systems, you might want to learn MATLAB.

4. C#/.NET　　

C# is a specialised programming language provided by Microsoft. I put C#/.NET here mainly because of the Microsoft RoboTIcs Developer Studio, a package whose main development language is C#. If you are going to use this system, then you will most likely have to use C#.

5. Java　

As an electrical engineer, I'm always amazed that some computer science degree programmes have Java as a programming language for students to learn.Java hides the underlying storage functions programmers, which makes it easier to write than some languages (such as C), but it also means that you'll have less of a chance of understanding the logic of how the underlying code works. If you have a background in computer science switched to robotics (which many people do, especially in research), you've probably already learned Java.Like C# MATLAB, Java is an interpreted language, which means that it doesn't get compiled into machine code. Instead, the Java Virtual Machine interprets instructions at runtime. Using Java theoretically allows you to run the same code on different machines, thanks to the Java Virtual Machine. In practice, this is always possible sometimes results in slow running code. But Java is very popular in parts of robotics, so you might need it.　

6. Python　

In recent years there has been a huge comeback of people learning Python, especially in the field of robotics. One reason for this may be that Python ( C++) are the two main programming languages in the ROS. Unlike Java, the focus is on ease of use, Python doesn't require a lot of time to do routine things like defining forcing conversions of variable types. These would have been commonplace within programming. In addition, Python has a large number of free libraries, which means that you don't have to ‘reinvent the wheel’ when you need to implement some basic functionality. because Python allows simple bindings to C/C++ code. This means that the performance of the heavy parts of the code can be built into these languages, thus avoiding performance loss. As more more electronics start to support Python ‘out of the box’ (along with RaspberryPi), we're likely to see a lot more Python in robots. Note: The Raspberry Pi FoundaTIon: a small UK-based charitable organisation set up to promote technology, rather than to promote the development of new technologies. with the aim of promoting technology rather than selling it for profit.　　

7. C/C++　

Finally we get to the #1 robotics programming language! Many consider C C++ to be a good starting point for new roboticists. Why? Because many hardware libraries use these two languages. These two languages allow interaction with low-level hardware, allow real-time performance, are very mature programming languages. Nowadays, you will probably use C++ more than C because the former has more features.C++ is basically an extension of C. It's a good place to start. It would be useful to learn a little bit of C first, especially if you find a hardware library written in C. C/C++ is as easy to use as Python MATLAB. Again implementing the same functionality in C will take a lot of time will require more lines of code. However, since robotics relies heavily on real-time performance, C C++ are the closest programming languages to the ‘standard language’ of our roboticists.