Touch2C: A Code Conversion Method from Programming Language for Swarm Intelligent Building to C Language

The Touch programming language for swarm intelligent building application (APP) development effectively reduces the development difficulty and user programming threshold, making the building more intelligent. However, the features of Touch language such as intuitive modeling of building elements, parallel programming, and the implicit specification of internode communication lead to great challenges in the compilation process of Touch language to the low-level executable object code of swarm intelligent buildings, and the APP development efficiency is not high. This paper proposes a code conversion method from Touch to C language and its supporting tools, designs code conversion algorithms for Touch language elements used to describe distributed building physical objects and parallel computing mode, which supports the automatic conversion of high-level Touch language, which is user-oriented and shielded from the details of the underlying interactions, into the C language code for underlying execution, thus realizing an integrated process from high-level APP development to low-level hardware platform execution and improving the APP development efficiency.