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AMiRo-Apps is a collection of applications and configurations for the Autonomous |
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Mini Robot (AMiRo) [1]. It is tightly coupled to the AMiRo-OS and uRtWare |
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projects, which provide a sophisticated operating system (based on ChibiOS) amd |
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a real-time middleware for embedded devices. |
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Copyright (C) 2018..2018 Thomas Schöpping et al. |
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(a complete list of all authors is given below) |
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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your option) any later version. |
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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General Public License for more details. |
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence |
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Cognitive Interaction Technology 'CITEC' (EXC 277) at Bielefeld |
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University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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Authors: |
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- Thomas Schöpping <tschoepp[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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- Marc Rothmann |
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References: |
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[1] S. Herbrechtsmeier, T. Korthals, T. Schopping and U. Rückert, "AMiRo: A |
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modular & customizable open-source mini robot platform," 2016 20th |
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International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), |
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Sinaia, 2016, pp. 687-692. |
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This file will help you to setup all required software on your system, compile |
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the source code, and flash it to the AMiRo modules. |
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CONTENTS: |
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1 Required software |
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2 Folder structure |
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1 - REQUIRED SOFTWARE |
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Since AMiRo-Apps depends on the AMiRo-OS and uRtWare projects, both are included |
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as Git submodules. Use the provided ./setup.sh script to initialize those. When |
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AMiRo-OS is fully configured, there is no additional software required by |
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AMiRo-Apps. For further details about the initialization follow the instructions |
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in the script and refer to the README.txt file of AMiRo-OS and uRtWare |
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respectively. |
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2 - FOLDER STRUCTURE |
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At its root, the AMiRo-Apps projects has six folders to distiquish between the |
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most fundamental parts: |
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├── apps |
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│ This folder includes individual applications, which can used by |
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│ configigurations. Apps will usually be implemented as nodes for the |
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│ middleware and provide acording interfaces via some message type(s). |
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├── configurations |
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│ Each configuration combines multiple apps and distributes them among any |
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│ supported modules. Furthermore, configurations may modify parameters for |
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│ each module individually. Finally, each configuration should come with a |
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│ makefile, so a user can just use this to build and flash the whole setup. |
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│ For better understanding, have a look at this example: |
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│ - module A: using apps 1, 2 and 3 with parameters X and Y. |
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│ - module B: using apps 1 and 4 with parameter X. |
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│ - module C: using apps 1, 5, 6 and 7 with parameters X and Z. |
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│ - Makefile: set and build everything. |
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│ Note that each configuration needs to explicitely support a module and |
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│ that there can never be an implicit default configuration. |
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├── messagetypes |
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│ Apps shoud take advantage of the middleware and thus implement nodes, |
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│ which communicate via messages. Such messages may have payloads of |
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│ arbitrary types, which can be defined in this folder. |
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├── middleware |
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│ This folder contains the µRtWare submodule and interface files. |
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├── os |
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│ This folder contains the AMiRo-OS submodule and interface files. |
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└── tools |
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Usable tools can be found in this dirctory. |
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