Programming the Lego Robots using NQC分析和总结分析和总结.docx

Programming Lego Robots using NQC (Version 3.03, Oct 2, 1999) by Mark Overmars Department of Computer Science Utrecht University P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht the Netherlands - - PAGE 10 - Preface The Lego MindStorms and CyberMaster robots are wonderful new toys from which a wide variety of robots can be constructed, that can be programmed to do all sorts of complicated tasks. Unfortunately, the software that comes with the robots is, although visually attractive, rather limited in functionality. Hence, it can only be used for simple tasks. To unleash the full power of the robots, you need a different programming environment. NQC is a programming language, written by Dave Baum, that was especially designed for the Lego robots. If you have never written a program before, dont worry. NQC is really easy to use and this tutorial will tell you all about it. Actually, programming the robots in NQC is a lot easier than programming a normal computer, so this is a chance to become a programmer in an easy way. To make writing programs even easier, there is the RCX Command Center. This utility helps you to write your programs, to send them to the robot, and to start and stop the robot. RCX Command Center works almost like a text processor, but with some extras. This tutorial will use RCX Command Center (version 3.0 or higher) as programming environment. You can download it for free from the web at the address http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/lego/ RCX Command Center runs on Windows PCs (95, 98, NT). (Make sure that you ran the software that comes with the Lego set at least once, before using RCX Command Center. The Lego software installs certain components that RCX Command Center uses.) The language NQC can also be used on other platforms. You can download it from the web at address /~dbaum/lego/nqc/ Most of this tutorial also applies to the other platforms (assuming you use NQC version 2.0 or higher), except that you loose some of the tools and the color-coding. In