1 Introduction
 1.1 Urbi and UObjects
 1.2 The Big Picture
 1.3 Urbi and urbiscript
 1.4 Genesis
 1.5 Outline
 1.6 Documentation
Contents
2 Getting Started
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3 First Steps
 3.1 Comments
 3.2 Literal values
 3.3 Function calls
 3.4 Variables
 3.5 Scopes
 3.6 Method calls
 3.7 Function definition
 3.8 Conclusion
4 Basic Objects, Value Model
 4.1 Objects in urbiscript
 4.2 Methods
 4.3 Everything is an object
 4.4 The urbiscript values model
 4.5 Conclusion
5 Flow Control Constructs
 5.1 if
 5.2 while
 5.3 for
 5.4 switch
 5.5 do
6 Advanced Functions and Scoping
 6.1 Scopes as expressions
 6.2 Advanced scoping
 6.3 Local functions
 6.4 Lexical closures
7 Objective Programming, urbiscript Object Model
 7.1 Prototype-Based Programming in urbiscript
 7.2 Prototypes and Slot Lookup
 7.3 Copy on Write
 7.4 Defining Pseudo-Classes
 7.5 Constructors
 7.6 Operators
 7.7 Properties
 7.8 Getters and setters
8 Organizing your code using package and import
 8.1 Why object lookup is not enough
 8.2 Import and package
9 Functional Programming
 9.1 First class functions
 9.2 Lambda functions
 9.3 Lazy arguments
10 Parallelism, Concurrent Flow Control
 10.1 Parallelism operators
 10.2 Detach
 10.3 Tags for parallel control flows
 10.4 timeout, freezeif and stopif
 10.5 Advanced example with parallelism and tags
11 Event-based Programming
 11.1 Watchdog constructs
 11.2 Events
12 Urbi for ROS Users
 12.1 Communication on topics
 12.2 Using Services
 12.3 Image Publisher from ROS to Urbi
 12.4 Image Subscriber from Urbi to ROS
 12.5 Remote communication
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13 Installation
 13.1 Download
 13.2 Install & Check
14 Frequently Asked Questions
 14.1 Build Issues
 14.2 Troubleshooting
 14.3 urbiscript
 14.4 UObjects
 14.5 Miscellaneous
15 Urbi Guideline
 15.1 urbiscript Programming Guideline
16 Migration from urbiscript 1 to urbiscript 2
 16.1 $(Foo)
 16.2 delete Foo
 16.3 emit Foo
 16.4 eval(Foo)
 16.5 foreach
 16.6 group
 16.7 loopn
 16.8 new Foo
 16.9 self
 16.10 stop Foo
 16.11 # line
 16.12 tag+end
17 Migration from urbiscript 2 to urbiscript 3
 17.1 Automatic function evaluation without parenthesis
 17.2 getSlot and setSlot
 17.3 Packages
18 Building Urbi SDK
 18.1 Building
 18.2 Run
 18.3 Check
 18.4 Debug
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19 Programs
 19.1 Environment Variables
 19.2 Special Files
 19.3 urbi — Running an Urbi Server
 19.4 urbi-image — Querying Images from a Server
 19.5 urbi-launch — Running a UObject
 19.6 urbi-launch-java — Running a Java UObject
 19.7 urbi-ping — Checking the Delays with a Server
 19.8 urbi-send — Sending urbiscript Commands to a Server
 19.9 urbi-sound — Querying Sounds from a Server
 19.10 umake — Compiling UObject Components
20 urbiscript Language Reference Manual
 20.1 Syntax
 20.2 Scopes and local variables
 20.3 Functions
 20.4 Objects
 20.5 Enumeration types
 20.6 Structural Pattern Matching
 20.7 Imperative flow control
 20.8 Exceptions
 20.9 Assertions
 20.10 Parallel Flow Control
 20.11 Event Handling
 20.12 Trajectories
 20.13 Garbage Collection and Limitations
21 urbiscript Standard Library
 
 21.1 Barrier
 21.2 Binary
 21.3 Boolean
 21.4 CallMessage
 21.5 Channel
 21.6 Code
 21.7 Comparable
 21.8 Container
 21.9 Control
 21.10 Date
 21.11 Dictionary
 21.12 Directory
 21.13 Duration
 21.14 Enumeration
 21.15 Event
 21.16 Exception
 21.17 Executable
 21.18 File
 21.19 Finalizable
 21.20 Float
 21.21 Float.limits
 21.22 FormatInfo
 21.23 Formatter
 21.24 Global
 21.25 Group
 21.26 Hash
 21.27 InputStream
 21.28 IoService
 21.29 Job
 21.30 Kernel1
 21.31 Lazy
 21.32 List
 21.33 Loadable
 21.34 Lobby
 21.35 Location
 21.36 Logger
 21.37 Math
 21.38 Matrix
 21.39 Mutex
 21.40 nil
 21.41 Object
 21.42 Orderable
 21.43 OutputStream
 21.44 Pair
 21.45 Path
 21.46 Pattern
 21.47 Position
 21.48 Primitive
 21.49 Process
 21.50 Profile
 21.51 Profile.Function
 21.52 PseudoLazy
 21.53 PubSub
 21.54 PubSub.Subscriber
 21.55 RangeIterable
 21.56 Regexp
 21.57 Semaphore
 21.58 Serializables
 21.59 Server
 21.60 Singleton
 21.61 Slot
 21.62 Socket
 21.63 StackFrame
 21.64 Stream
 21.65 String
 21.66 Subscription
 21.67 System
 21.68 System.PackageInfo
 21.69 System.Platform
 21.70 Tag
 21.71 Timeout
 21.72 Traceable
 21.73 TrajectoryGenerator
 21.74 Triplet
 21.75 Tuple
 21.76 UObject
 21.77 uobjects
 21.78 UValue
 21.79 UValueSerializable
 21.80 Vector
 21.81 void
22 Communication with ROS
 22.1 Ros
 22.2 Ros.Topic
 22.3 Ros.Service
23 Urbi Standard Robotics API
 23.1 The Structure Tree
 23.2 Frame of Reference
 23.3 Component naming
 23.4 Localization
 23.5 Interface
 23.6 Standard Components
 23.7 Compact notation
 23.8 Support classes
IV  Urbi and UObjects User Manual
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24 Quick Start
 24.1 UObject Basics
 24.2 Using urbiscript
 24.3 Conclusion
25 The UObject API
 25.1 Compiling UObjects
 25.2 Creating a class, binding variables and functions
 25.3 Creating new instances
 25.4 Binding functions
 25.5 Notification of a variable change or access
 25.6 Data-flow based programming: exchanging UVars
 25.7 Data-flow based programming: InputPort
 25.8 Timers
 25.9 The special case of sensor/actuator variables
 25.10 Using Urbi variables
 25.11 Emitting events
 25.12 UObject and Threads
 25.13 Using binary types
 25.14 Direct communication between UObjects
 25.15 Using hubs to group objects
 25.16 Sending urbiscript code
 25.17 Using RTP transport in remote mode
 25.18 Extending the cast system
26 The UObject Java API
 26.1 Compiling and running UObjects
 26.2 Creating a class, binding variables and functions
 26.3 Creating new instances
 26.4 Binding functions
 26.5 Notification of a variable change or access
 26.6 Timers
 26.7 Using Urbi variables
 26.8 Sending Urbi code
 26.9 Providing a main class or not
 26.10 Import the examples with Eclipse
 26.11 Run the UObject Java examples
27 Use Cases
 27.1 Writing a Servomotor Device
 27.2 Using Hubs to Group Objects
 27.3 Writing a Camera Device
 27.4 Writing a Speaker or Microphone Device
 27.5 Writing a Softdevice: Ball Detection
V  Tables and Indexes
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28 Notations
 28.1 Words
 28.2 Frames
29 Grammar
30 Release Notes
 30.1 Urbi SDK 3.0
 30.2 Urbi SDK 2.7.5
 30.3 Urbi SDK 2.7.4
 30.4 Urbi SDK 2.7.3
 30.5 Urbi SDK 2.7.2
 30.6 Urbi SDK 2.7.1
 30.7 Urbi SDK 2.7
 30.8 Urbi SDK 2.6
 30.9 Urbi SDK 2.5
 30.10 Urbi SDK 2.4
 30.11 Urbi SDK 2.3
 30.12 Urbi SDK 2.2
 30.13 Urbi SDK 2.1
 30.14 Urbi SDK 2.0.3
 30.15 Urbi SDK 2.0.2
 30.16 Urbi SDK 2.0.1
 30.17 Urbi SDK 2.0
 30.18 Urbi SDK 2.0 RC 4
 30.19 Urbi SDK 2.0 RC 3
 30.20 Urbi SDK 2.0 RC 2
 30.21 Urbi SDK 2.0 RC 1
 30.22 Urbi SDK 2.0 beta 4
 30.23 Urbi SDK 2.0 beta 3
 30.24 Urbi SDK 2.0 beta 2
31 Licenses
 31.1 Boost Software License 1.0
 31.2 BSD License
 31.3 Expat License
 31.4 gnu.bytecode
 31.5 ICU License
 31.6 Independent JPEG Group’s Software License
 31.7 Libcoroutine License
 31.8 OpenSSL License
 31.9 ROS
 31.10 Urbi Open Source Contributor Agreement
32 Bibliography
33 Glossary
34 List of Tables
35 List of Figures
Index