Type of robot Motherboard?

Hi all,

Can you let me know the type and manufacturer of the outdoors robot motherboard?

Regards,

Renato.

Hola todos,

Les envio un link que explica como podrian realizar una doble titulacion con el tec y la universidad de Essex. En teoria lo que tienen que hacer es pertenecer o ser aceptados en este programa y en Essex. El principal beneficio es que realizarian una estancia de posgrado o Maestria en la Universidad de Essex mientras terminan su carrera.

http://www.mty.itesm.mx/rectoria/dda/dacmi/DobleTitulo.htm

- MSc Embedded Systems
- MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics
- MSc Telecommunication and Information Systems


Saludos y suerte!

Renato.

Client example for Player/Stage

Hi,

I would like to know which versions of Player and Stage you are using. Also I found an assignment from SW University with some files that might help you to make a program.

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4411/wiki/index.php?title=Assignment_1

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4411/assign1/

I look forward to hear from you.

Best wishes,

Renato.

Dear students,

Happy new year, I wish success during 2010 for all of you.

Is there any news with our tickets?

Best wishes,

Renato.

Player Stage installation

Hi everyone!

After several attempts I could finally install Player Stage. I am not sure why did it work this time since I followed the exact same instructions during the previous attempts, however I am guessing that what made it successful was to use the Ubuntu 9.04 cd to install all of the packages and to restart my computer every time a significant action was made (installation of packages, execution of commands, creation of directories and files).

I can now continue with the following tickets.

Regards!

Instalation of Player - Stage

Hello Everyone.

Yesterday I was able to install Player-Stage following the instructions posted on November 25 here in this blog. After trying two times it finally worked out and the instalation was complete, it works great. Laura will look forward to discover why it didn't work on her pc. Now I can complete more tickets. Thanks 4 all.

Regards.

Oscar.

Player Stage installation

Hi everyone!

I have reinstalled Ubuntu 9.04 and then followed the instructions posted (which are the steps Arturo took to successfully install player and stage). When trying to run the simple.cfg file I get no errors nor warnings, however, the world isn't displayed. I am going to try with other cfg files but if anyone had this problem previously please let me know how did you solve it.

Greetings!

Player 2.1.2 Stage 2.1.1 installation guide

We installed Player/Stage today.

The version of Ubuntu in which we did this is 9.04. Following are the steps we took
for the installation:

1. Check for all of the available updates and install them.

2. Install all the packages included in this wiki:
http://www.control.aau.dk/~tb/wiki/index.php/Installing_Player_and_Stage_in_Ubuntu

3. With the installation cd inside go to the synaptic package manager and then to settings/repositories. Activate the option that says “Cdrom with Ubuntu 9.04”. Then go to the Third Party Software tab and activate all of the options available.
Finally, go to the Updates tab and activate the “Proposed updates” option. Reload the synaptic.

4. Download from http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/ the 2.1.2 version of Player and the 2.1.1 version of Stage.

5. Unpack Player-2.1.2.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf player-2.1.2.tar.gz

6. When configuring player including all of the default drivers, we got several errors related to the vec2map driver. That is why we disabled it as follows. Inside the directory in which you unpacked this file type:

$ ./configure –disable-vec2map

7. After this type

$ make
$ sudo make install

At this point Player should have successfully been installed. The following step is to install Stage.

8. Unpack Stage-2.1.1-tar.gz

$ tar xzvf stage-2.1.1-tar.gz

9. Then type:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

10. The rgb.txt file was omitted in this version of Ubuntu. Therefore, you must create this file in the corresponding directory. Go to the following directory:

$ cd usr/X11R6

And then create a new directory as follows:

$ sudo mkdir lib/X11

Inside this directory create a file named rgb.txt with the content included in this link

http://osdir.com/ml/science.robotics.playerstage.cvs/2008-01/msg00023.html

11. After completing this step you must make a dynamic link in order for the libraries to be loaded successfully. You can do this also by modifying the .bashrc file. We however found this option a lot easier and faster.

$ sudo ldconfig

12. Finally test the correct installation of both player and stage:

$ player usr/local/share/stage/worlds/simple.cfg

Have a nice day!

Junta 25 de Noviembre de 2009

Vimos la instalación del Stage en la máquina de Arturo, quedó funcionando.

Se generaron nuevos tickets y se borraron algunos.

Se quedó que el trabajo empezará nuevamente la semana del 7 de Diciembre (antes si ya terminan sus exámenes).

La semana del 7 de Dic. nos reuniremos el jueves o viernes.

RGB.txt

http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/latex/rgb.txt

http://osdir.com/ml/science.robotics.playerstage.cvs/2008-01/msg00023.html

Junta 25 de Noviembre de 2009

Renato confirma junta para mañana 25 de Nov a las 10.00 am. Nos vemos en mi oficina.

Junta 18 de Noviembre 2009

Junta con Renato.

Básicamente nos informa que se va del DFKI-Bremen y ahora trabajara en Surrey Space Centre en Inglaterra (Guildford).

Platicamos sobre las posibilidades de ir a Alemania o esperar a que él esté bien establecido en Surrey para ver si se puede ir con él.

Renato vio con cada uno sus intereses: Carlos señales biomedicas, Oscar robótica espacial, Arturo vision.

Se asignarán tickets que nos ayuden en la investigación y que a cada uno ayude a tener experiencia en su área de interes.

Nos volvemos a reunir el miércoles 25 a las 10.00 am.

Junta 18 de Noviembre 2009

Hola a todos:

Les pido que por favor nos veamos este miércoles a las 9.00 am en mi oficina para una junta con Renato. Hay cosas importantes que discutir.

Los esperamos.

Problem with Stagte installation

Hello everyone

After an apparent successful installation of Player I had a compilation problem that made Stage's installation impossible. When trying to generate the makefiles with cmake I get the following error:

* WebSim not detected.

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:350
(message):
None of the required 'cppunit' found
Call Stack (most recent call first):hat
libstageplugin/test/CMakeLists.txt:3 (pkg_search_module)

I searched several forums and they said that this problem has to do with the libtool package missing but I verified it and it is already installed.

Hope any of you can help me with this problem.

Greetings!

Player/Stage reinstallation process

Hi everyone:

Today I downloaded the .tar.gz of the latest versions of player and stage. I installed them according to the instructions included on the INSTALL.txt files. I had no trouble installing player, however, once again I had some problems while exporting the paths of the libraries that Stage requires.

The first problem I had after installing Stage and running the simple.cfg file was the following one:
layer: error while loading shared libraries: libplayerdrivers.so.3.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This problem I solved by making a symbolic link (with ldconfig).

After doing this, the drivers library was no longer a problem, However, the following errors were then displayed:


error : Failed to load plugin stageplugin.
error : libtool reports error: file not found
error : plugin search path: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/laura/playerstage/bin:/home/laura/playerstage/share/stage/worlds:/home/laura/Documents/Stage-3.2.0-Source/worlds:.:/usr/local/lib/
error : failed to load plugin: stageplugin
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks

The path being searched to find the plugin was quite disturbing... I remembered that I had already exported this paths during my first installation process some months ago.

I then eliminated some lines from the .bashrc files and made other exports with the help of Arturo and ended up with the following errors:

error : Failed to load plugin stageplugin.
error : libtool reports error: file not found
error : plugin search path: /home/laura/Documents/Stage-3.2.0-Source/worlds:.:/usr/local/lib/
error : failed to load plugin: stageplugin
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks

The path being searched now is only doubled, however we weren't able to find where was the first path located in order to get rid of it.

I also want to tell you that the newest versions of player stage have quite clear instructions in comparison with the previous ones. The indications of path exports are included and examples are relatively clear. This is why, if I don't find the solution to the path dilemma, I will start the installation all over again publishing every step I make in order for you to make some comments on the curious facts that you notice.

Regards!

Laura

Junta 14 de Octubre de 2009

Discutimos principalmente el mensaje de Renato referente a la instalación utilizando Synaptic.

Interpretando el mensaje de Renato, llegamos a la conclusión de que se desea el aprendizaje de herramientas de programación en Unix como Make, aprender a debugear, aprender a compilar etc. Esto con el objetivo de poder aplicar dichos conocimientos al hacer programas propios.

Acciones:

1. Verificar con Renato la versión que el está usando de Ubuntu para estar bien seguros de que es la misma.
2. Instalar Ubuntu y Player/Stage en la máquina de Laura primero y después en la de Oscar para verificar.
3. A la vez, seguir desarrollando el programa de navegación que sugirió Renato.

Sample navigation program and playernav codes

Hello everyone

Today I uploaded on Assembla the scripts related to the playernav util because the installation of player/stage with the synaptic package manager contains all of this programs already compiled. I got this codes from a backup I made of the files downloaded for my first attempt of installation (when I compiled everything). I started to take a look at this codes with Arturo and Carlos and I think it would be convenient for all of us to comment them in order to share our understanding.

I also downloaded the instructions for creating the sample navigation program, a pdf file located in the task with the same name (which was formerly assigned to Carlos L. and Luis). I think we have already understood how to create a player service (a cfg file). In fact, we have already done this with nero, adding the necessary drivers to achieve communication.

We have several player/stage documentation to read in order to understand the correct usage of the drivers and the libraries. However I think we will be able to make a significant advance throughout the next weeks.

Greetings!

Laura

Junta 25 de Septiembre de 2009

Junta entre Renato y Jorge.

Se platico sobre el avance del convenio: lento.

Se platico sobre el avance del proyecto: parece detenido.

Se decidió tener una junta con todos via Skype o GTalk para este miércoles 30 de Septiembre a las 9.30 am. Es importante que los alumnos tengan una cámara y Jorge otra.

Por favor avisen a Jorge quien de los alumnos traerá la cámara.

Junta Renato y Jorge

Todo va lento, muy lento.

Seguir presionando para que le convenio quede listo a la brevedad.

Analizar la posibilidad de hacer todo simulado, por lo tanto, la programación es cada vez más apremiante.

MSN

Hola.

Solo quería comentarle a Renato que hace ya un tiempo lo agregué al msn pero no lo he visto conectado, no se si no se conecta casi o no me ha aceptado la solicitud. Mas que nada para comentar dudas que surgen con el. Pongo mi correo por si sirve para la comunicación vía msn.

oscar_panczenko@hotmail.com

Saludos cordiales.