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demiurge-epuck-dao

This package contains the reference models of the e-puck robot used mainly in AutoMoDe methods. It acts as a Data Access Object for all low level actuation and sensing of the epuck robot. All reference models inherit from the EpuckDAO class.

All useful information about the AutoMoDe package, including installation and utilization instructions, are regrouped in the following technical report (techrep). Please cite this report if you use any ARGoS3-AutoMoDe related package.

Package content

• src/ contains the source files of all reference models.
  • EpuckDAO.* contain the mother class from which all other reference models are derived.
  • ReferenceModel<a>Dot<b>.* contains the source of reference model version a.b (see refmodel for more information about the different reference models)

Installation

Dependencies

• ARGoS3 (3.0.0-beta48)
• argos3-epuck (v48)

Compiling and installing

$ git clone https://github.com/demiurge-project/demiurge-epuck-dao.git
$ cd demiurge-epuck-dao
$ mkdir build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

Once compiled and installed the shared library and header files are installed in the system.

If you do not have root access off what to install in a your local argos distribution folder use (if your argos installation is located in ~/argos-dist):

$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/argos-dist
$ make
$ make install

How to use

This package is meant to be used as a library to allow unified access to actuators and sensors for different automatic design methods. It is used in AutoMoDe, Evostick and other automatic design methods (see references).

References

Bibliography

• [refmodel] Hasselmann, K., Ligot, A., Francesca, G., & Birattari, M. (2018). Reference models for AutoMoDe. Technical report TR/IRIDIA/2018-002, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• [techrep] Ligot, A., Hasselmann, K., Delhaisse, B., Garattoni, L., Francesca, G., & Birattari, M. (2017). AutoMoDe, NEAT, and EvoStick: implementations for the E-puck robot in ARGoS3. Technical report TR/IRIDIA/2017-002, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• [chocolate] Francesca, G., Brambilla, M., Brutschy, A., Garattoni, L., Miletitch, R., Podevijn, G., ... & Mascia, F. (2015). AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 9(2-3), 125-152.
• [gianduja] Hasselmann K., Robert F., Birattari M. (2018) Automatic Design of Communication-Based Behaviors for Robot Swarms. In: Dorigo M., Birattari M., Blum C., Christensen A., Reina A., Trianni V. (eds) Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11172. Springer, Cham