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1 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | AMiRo-OS is the operating system for the base version of the Autonomous Mini |
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2 | Robot (AMiRo) [1]. It utilizes ChibiOS (a real-time operating system for |
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3 | embedded devices developed by Giovanni di Sirio; see <http://chibios.org>) as |
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4 | system kernel and extends it with platform specific functionalities. |
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5 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
6 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | Copyright (C) 2016..2017 Thomas Schöpping et al. |
7 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | (a complete list of all authors is given below) |
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9 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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10 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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11 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at |
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12 | your option) any later version. |
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14 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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15 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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16 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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17 | General Public License for more details. |
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19 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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20 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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22 | 074e10d7 | Thomas Schöpping | This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence |
23 | Cognitive Interaction Technology 'CITEC' (EXC 277) at Bielefeld |
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24 | University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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25 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
26 | Authors: |
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27 | - Thomas Schöpping <tschoepp[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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28 | - Timo Korthals <tkorthals[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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29 | - Stefan Herbechtsmeier <sherbrec[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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30 | - Teerapat Chinapirom <tchinapirom[at]cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> |
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31 | - Robert Abel |
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32 | - Marvin Barther |
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33 | - Claas Braun |
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34 | - Tristan Kenneweg |
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36 | References: |
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37 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | [1] S. Herbrechtsmeier, T. Korthals, T. Schopping and U. Rückert, "AMiRo: A |
38 | modular & customizable open-source mini robot platform," 2016 20th |
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39 | International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), |
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40 | Sinaia, 2016, pp. 687-692. |
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56 | This file will help you to setup all required software on your system, compile |
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57 | the source code, and flash it to the AMiRo modules. |
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59 | ================================================================================ |
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60 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
61 | CONTENTS: |
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62 | 1 Required software |
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63 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | 1.1 GCC ARM Embedded Toolchain |
64 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | 1.2 ChibiOS |
65 | 1.3 AMiRo-BLT |
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66 | 2 Recommended software |
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67 | 2.1 gtkterm and hterm |
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68 | 2.2 QtCreator |
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69 | 3 Building and flashing |
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71 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | ================================================================================ |
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75 | 1 - REQUIRED SOFTWARE |
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76 | --------------------- |
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78 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | In order to compile the source code, you need to install the GCC for ARM |
79 | embedded devices. Since AMiRo-OS requires ChibiOS as system kernel, you need a |
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80 | copy of that project as well. Furthermore, AMiRo-OS requires a compatible |
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81 | bootloader, such as provided by the AMiRo-BLT project. |
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85 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | 1.1 GCC ARM Embedded Toolchain |
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87 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
88 | Various versions of the GCC for ARM embedded devices can be found at |
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89 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | <https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded>. It is highly recommended to use the |
90 | version 4.8 with update 2014-q1 since some others will cause issues. For |
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91 | installation of the compiler toolchain, please follow the instructions that can |
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92 | be found on the web page. |
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94 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
95 | 1.2 ChibiOS |
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96 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | ----------- |
97 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
98 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | Since AMiRo-OS uses ChibiOS as underlying system kernel, you need to acquire a |
99 | copy of it as well. First, go to the directory which contains the AMiRo-OS |
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100 | folder (but do not go into the AMiRo-OS directory itself!). Now clone the GIT |
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101 | repository of ChibiOS and checkout version 2.6.x: |
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102 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | >$ git clone https://github.com/ChibiOS/ChibiOS.git ChibiOS |
103 | >$ cd ChibiOS |
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104 | >$ git checkout 2e6dfc7364e7551483922ea6afbaea8f3501ab0e |
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105 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | It is highly recommended to use exactly this commit. Although newer commits in |
106 | the 2.6.x branch might work fine, AMiRo-OS is not compatible with ChibiOS |
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107 | version 3 or newer. |
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109 | AMiRo-OS comes with some patches to ChibiOS, which must be applied as well |
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110 | before compiling the project. Therefore you need to copy all files from the |
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111 | ./patches directory of AMiRo-OS to the root directory of ChibiOS. You can then |
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112 | apply the patches via the following command: |
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113 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | >$ for i in `ls | grep patch`; do git am --ignore-space-change --ignore-whitespace < ${i}; done |
114 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | If the files could not be patched successfully, you are probably using an |
115 | incompatible version of ChibiOS (try to checkout the correct commit as denoted |
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116 | above). |
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119 | 1.3 AMiRo-BLT |
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120 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | ------------- |
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122 | AMiRo-BLT is an additional software project, which is developed in parallel with |
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123 | AMiRo-OS. If you did not receive a copy of AMiRo-BLT with AMiRo-OS, you can find |
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124 | all code and documentation at <https://opensource.cit-ec.de/projects/amiro-os>. |
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125 | Instructions for installation and how to use the software provided by AMiRo-BLT |
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126 | can be found on the web page or in the project's readme file. |
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130 | 2 - RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE |
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133 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | In order to fully use all features of AMiRo-OS it is recommended to install the |
134 | 'hterm' or 'gtkterm' application for accessing the robot. To ease further |
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135 | development, this project offers support for the QtCreator IDE. |
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137 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
138 | 2.1 - gtkterm and hterm |
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139 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | ----------------------- |
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141 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | Depending on your operating system, it is recommended to install 'gtkterm' for |
142 | Linux (available in the Ubuntu repositories), or 'hterm' for Windows. For |
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143 | gtkterm you need to modify the configuration file ~/.gtktermrc (it is generated |
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144 | automatically when you start the application for the first time) as follows: |
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145 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
146 | port = /dev/ttyUSB0 |
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147 | speed = 115200 |
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148 | bits = 8 |
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149 | stopbits = 1 |
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150 | parity = none |
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151 | flow = none |
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152 | wait_delay = 0 |
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153 | wait_char = -1 |
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154 | rs485_rts_time_before_tx = 30 |
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155 | rs485_rts_time_after_tx = 30 |
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156 | echo = False |
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157 | crlfauto = True |
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159 | For hterm you must need to configure the tool analogously. |
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162 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | 2.2 - QtCreator |
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165 | In order to setup QtCreator projects for the three AMiRo base modules, a script |
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166 | is provided in the directory ./ide/qtcreator/. It is accompanied by an |
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167 | additional README.txt file, which contains further information. |
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171 | 3 - BUILDING AND FLASHING |
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172 | ------------------------- |
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174 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | Each time you modify any part of AMiRo-OS, you need to recompile the whole |
175 | project for the according AMiRo module. Therefore you have to use the makefiles |
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176 | provided in ./devices/<DeviceToRecompile>/ by simply executing 'make' in the |
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177 | according directory. If you want to compile all modules at once, you can also |
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178 | use the makefile in the ./devices/ folder. |
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180 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | After compilation, you always have to flash the generated program to the robot. |
181 | Therefore you need to install the SerialBoot tool provided by the AMiRo-BLT |
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182 | project. Furthermore the tool must be accessible globally under the environment |
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183 | variable 'SERIALBOOT'. You can do this by appending the following line to your |
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184 | ~/.bashrc file: |
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185 | 58fe0e0b | Thomas Schöpping | |
186 | export SERIALBOOT=</absolute/path/to/the/SerialBoot/binary> |
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188 | You can test the tool by calling it via the variable: |
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189 | >$ ${SERIALBOOT} |
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190 | This should print some information about the tool. |
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192 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | Similar to the compilation procedure as described above, you can flash either |
193 | each module separately, or all modules at once by executing 'make flash' from |
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194 | the according directory. Note that you must connect the programming cable either |
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195 | to the DiWheelDrive or the PowerManagement module for flashing the operating |
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196 | system. All other modules are powered off after reset so that only these two |
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197 | offer a bootloader that is required for flashing. |
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199 | 3dcad54e | Thomas Schöpping | ================================================================================ |