[C.CC USERS] Robodeb?

[Jon Simpson]

Hi Laurence, Matt,

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Matt Jadud <jadudm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technically, I suspect it does. However, I also suspect there might be
> better ways (nowadays). I know we still have wrappers for
> Player/Stage, but I don't know if anyone in the group has worked with
> it (actively) for a while.

I believe Adam spent some time reviving the robodeb image for use at
York a while back. He'd be best placed to comment on its current
state.

> There is a robotics "simulator" (very simplistic) written in o-pi that
> is... possibly bundled with the JEdit environment? (If it isn't, it
> should be... but since Kent uses it in classes, I suspect it is part
> of the package.)
>
> Jon -- could you provide a pointer re: the Mars stuff?

No problem, all of the resources for that live externally:

http://jonsimpson.co.uk/mars/

That document is mostly self-contained, and I have been fairly careful
to cultivate links to resources which don't require a Kent login - if
you do hit any walls let me know. One expected one is moodle links  or
submission information - those are specific to CO538 at Kent. It's
worth noting that most 'firewalled' things can be found at alternate
locations by plugging their names into Google.

>> paper you linked me to. That 'GUI' for occam-pi sounds interesting
>> too...would that be that hard to make?
>
> The visual stuff is... not as easy as it sounds. Jon was working on
> that. Again, I defer to others.

Indeed, I have been working on a GUI environment for building
programs. We've known for a while that doing this properly would be
difficult - the environment is still very rough, but is a focus for me
when time permits. If you're truly curious, you can grab the source
from my github account: http://github.com/exo/processviz

Dragging & dropping processes around works, and code for basic
programs can be generated (although support for building isn't there,
so you'll have to build the .occ it drops from scratch for now). In no
way would I recommend any serious use of the tool at this time.

Cheers,
Jon