Chapter 3, A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process

1. A storyboard for a movie is used not just for advancing the plot, but showing what point of view will be used – in other words, it is used to plan camera angles, directions, and movements. The purpose of both storyboards is to “tell the story” of what happens, so they are different, and the same. The point of view of a computer software storyboard should be the user.
2. Who? What? When? Where? Why?. More relevant questions might be: How well? How often? How much?

3. Use cases are from the user's perspective and never include implementation details.
4. The robot has to: determine a route to the toybox; plan a path; avoid obstacles along the way; align itself with the front of the toybox; drive up to the toybox; and move the robot arm to clear the top.
5. It is to complement the teller of the joke –...