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1 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | AMiRo-BLT is the bootloader and flashing toolchain for the base version of the |
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2 | 9c219069 | Thomas Schöpping | Autonomous Mini Robot (AMiRo) [1]. It is based on OpenBLT developed by Feaser |
3 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | (see <http://feaser.com/en/openblt.php>). |
4 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | |
5 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | Copyright (C) 2016..2017 Thomas Schöpping et al. |
6 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | (a complete list of all authors is given below) |
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8 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
9 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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10 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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11 | your option) any later version. |
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13 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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14 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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15 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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16 | General Public License for more details. |
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18 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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19 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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20 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | |
21 | da350eab | Thomas Schöpping | This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence |
22 | Cognitive Interaction Technology 'CITEC' (EXC 277) at Bielefeld |
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23 | University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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24 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | |
25 | Authors: |
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26 | - Thomas Schöpping <tschoepp[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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27 | - Stefan Herbechtsmeier <sherbrec[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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28 | - Marvin Barther |
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30 | References: |
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31 | 9c219069 | Thomas Schöpping | [1] S. Herbrechtsmeier, T. Korthals, T. Schopping and U. Rückert, "AMiRo: A |
32 | modular & customizable open-source mini robot platform," 2016 20th |
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33 | International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), |
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34 | Sinaia, 2016, pp. 687-692. |
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50 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | This file will help you to setup all required software on your system, compile |
51 | the source code, and use the tools and flash the bootloader software to the |
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52 | AMiRo base modules. |
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54 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | ================================================================================ |
55 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | |
56 | CONTENTS: |
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58 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | 1 Required software |
59 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | 1.1 Git |
60 | 1.2 stm32flash |
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61 | 1.3 GCC ARM Embedded Toolchain |
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62 | 1.4 GNU Make |
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63 | 1.5 CMake |
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64 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | 2 Recommended Software |
65 | 3 Compiling the source code |
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66 | 3.1 target software |
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67 | 3.2 host software |
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73 | 1 - REQUIRED SOFTWARE |
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76 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | The only third party software required are stm32flash and GCC for ARM embedded |
77 | devices. While the latter is a compiler to build binaries that are compatible |
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78 | with the microcontrollers (MCUs) of AMiRo, the former is used to write this data |
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79 | to the hardware. |
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82 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | 1.1 - Git |
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85 | Since all main- and subprojects are available as Git repositories, installing a |
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86 | recent version of the tool is mandatory. |
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89 | 1.2 - stm32flash |
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90 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | ---------------- |
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92 | 6feb961b | Thomas Schöpping | This tool is required to flash the bootloader binaries to the microcontrollers. |
93 | Since it is included in this project as a submodule, you can just run the setup |
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94 | script in the root directory: |
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95 | >$ ./setup.sh |
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96 | Follow the instructions to download the source code and compile the tool. The |
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97 | 8446a3a1 | Thomas Schöpping | resulting binary path is ./Host/Source/stm32flash/stm32flash. |
98 | 6feb961b | Thomas Schöpping | |
99 | The setup script does not install the tool to your system path, though, since |
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100 | this usually requires root permissions. However, stm32flash provides a Makefile |
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101 | with installation capabilities. Just Follow the instructions given in the file |
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102 | 8446a3a1 | Thomas Schöpping | ./Host/Source/stm32flash/INSTALL. |
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105 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | 1.3 - GCC ARM Embedded Toolchain |
106 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | -------------------------------- |
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108 | Various versions of the GCC for ARM embedded devices can be found at |
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109 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | <https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded>. For installation of the compiler |
110 | toolchain, please follow the instructions that can be found on the web page. |
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111 | If you have access to the AMiRo-OS project as well, it is highly recommended |
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112 | to use the setup application provided there. |
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114 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | If you are running a 64-bit operating system, you will have to install several |
115 | 32-bit libraries in order to make the compiler work. The required packages are |
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116 | libc6, libstdc++6, and libncurses5. You can run the following shell commands to |
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117 | install the according 32-bit versions of the packages: |
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118 | >$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update |
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119 | >$ sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libncurses5:i386 |
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122 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | 1.4 - GNU Make |
123 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | -------------- |
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125 | GNU Make usually comes as preinstalled tool on Ubuntu based operating systems. |
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126 | If your system is missing GNU Make, it is recommended to install it from the |
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127 | standard repositories since no special requirements (e.g. features of a very |
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128 | recent version) are required. |
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131 | 3fbc2ae9 | Thomas Schöpping | 1.5 - CMake |
132 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | ----------- |
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134 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | In order to build the SerialBoot host application, CMake version 2.8 or later is |
135 | required. If possible, it is recommended to instal it from the standard |
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136 | repositories of your operating system. |
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140 | 2 - RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE |
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143 | AMiRo-BLT provides support for the QtCreator IDE. In order to setup according |
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144 | projects, use the ./setup.sh script and follow the instructions. It will |
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145 | automatically generate the required files and you can import the projects by |
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146 | opening the .creator files with Qtcreator IDE. |
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150 | 3 - COMPILING THE SOURCE CODE |
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151 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | ----------------------------- |
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153 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | The AMiRo-BLT project is separated into two major parts: target- and host- |
154 | related software. The former comprises the bootloaders for the three base |
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155 | modules of the AMiRo. The latter is the SerialBoot tool, which can be used to |
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156 | flash further binaries (e.g. a complex operating system) to the microcontrollers |
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157 | without connecting to the module directly (data is passed through via CAN bus). |
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158 | Since the programming connector of the lowermost AMiRo module is the only one |
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159 | accessible when the robot is fully set up, this enables to update the firmware |
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160 | even for other modules. |
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163 | 3.1 - target software |
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166 | In the ./Target/Demo/ directory there are three subfolders, one for each AMiRo |
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167 | base module. Within each of these is an additional Boot/ folder |
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168 | (./Target/Demo/<device>/Boot/), which contains a makefile. Each bootloader can |
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169 | be compiled by executing 'make' in these directories. |
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171 | In order to flash the bootloader to a microcontroller, you first have to set |
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172 | full read and write permissions to the USB ports of your system. You can do so |
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173 | by executing the following command: |
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174 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | >$ sudo echo 'KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*",NAME="tts/USB%n",SYMLINK+="%k",MODE="0666"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-ttyusb.rules |
175 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | Now connect the module you want to flash directly to your system (note that |
176 | indirect flashing is not possible for the bootloader itself) and run the command |
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177 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | >$ make flash |
178 | If the procedure was not successful, the following hints might help: |
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179 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | - Could the makefile execute the stm32flash tool? |
180 | - Are the permissions for USB ports set correctly? |
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181 | - Are there any other applications using the serial connection? |
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182 | - Is the AMiRo module connected to your system? |
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183 | - Is the AMiRo module powered up? |
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185 | ATTENTION: |
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186 | Never flash a bootloader to the wrong module! Doing so might cause severe errors |
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187 | and damage the robot. |
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190 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | 3.2 - host software |
191 | ------------------- |
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193 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | The SerialBoot tool can be built by using cmake. The according CMakeLists.txt |
194 | file can be found in the ./Host/Source/SerialBoot/ directory. To ensure |
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195 | compatibility with other software (e.g. AMiRo-OS) it is higly recommended to use |
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196 | the provided ./setup.sh script to build SerialBoot. In the end the binary path |
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197 | a8fc89f4 | Thomas Schöpping | should be ./Host/Source/SerialBoot/build/SerialBoot. |
198 | 69661903 | Thomas Schöpping | |
199 | 4cce70a8 | Thomas Schöpping | ================================================================================ |