Events! (Reactivity in urbiscript)

Urbi SDK is a software platform for the development of portable robotic applications. It features the Urbi UObject C++ middleware, to manage hardware drivers and/or possibly remote software components, and urbiscript, a domain specific programming language to orchestrate them. Reactivity is a key feature of Urbi SDK, embodied in events in urbiscript. This paper presents the support for events in urbiscript.

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