Using storyboards

In this section, we are going to decompose our use cases further in order to understand the various tasks our robot must undertake on our behalf in the course of its two missions. I’ve created some storyboards – quick little drawings – to illustrate each point.

The concept of storyboards is borrowed from the movie industry, where a comic-strip-like narration is used to translate words on a page in the script into a series of pictures or cartoons that convey additional information not found in the script, such as framing, context, movement, props, sets, and camera moves. The practice of storyboarding goes all the way back to silent movies and is still used today.

We can use storyboards in robotics design for the same reasons: to convey additional information not found in the words of the use cases. Storyboards should be simple, quick, and just convey enough information to help you understand what is going on.

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