API abstraction of Robotic Frameworks and its usability impact

Abstract

This paper explains the process to design and develop an API to abstract robotic frameworks away from users. It also evaluates the API in comparison to a robotic framework in regards to usability. In order to evaluate usability a systematic data collection process was done to measure operability, learnability and user error protection. The results show the API as a more usable point of contact than the robotic framework.