Map task

Hi everyone!

Yesterday Arturo and I began looking at some webpages that gave indications on how to create .cgf and .world files. The following link was useful for us: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~parker/Courses/CS594-fall07/handouts/PlayerStageGettingStarted.html#six

Concerning the creation of a world file, we started analyzing the information and parameters that need to be defined. We saw that an environment bitmap map was loaded, so what we are thinking is that, in order to create the .world file we only need to place our own .png file which we already have and change some of the parameters and conditions of it, for instance the size of the world and the robot properties, sensors and actuators (we need to define the sonar and the laser). We had to go to planta fisica to get a blackprint of cedetec's second floor.

Today I ran into Carlos.... Ishtarys (hope I spelled that correctly) and he told me he and Luis can help us with this task. I think that is great because we ran into several parts of the code we dind't entirely understand. I told him I was going to send him document with the specific doubts we have, which we'll do later on. However we can give you a quick overview of the task Jorge explained us:

We have to create a .world file of the lab and a .cfg file that provides the interface. We will then have to be abl¿le to make a program (we are planning to take a look at example0 for guidance) that lets both robots navigate in the map. The indoor robots would have both the laser and the sonar proxys and the outer one would have only the laser proxy.

He also told me we should meet personally, I think some of my available hours agree with his, however it is kind of complicated because their available hours are our class hours and viceversa. I would like you all to give me your emails in order to have contact through messenger.

Arturo will be posting later on with some specific questions we came up with while analyzing several codes.

Take care.