Haven't had much to say recently, but I doubt there are that many readers out there desperate to hear about my every move. Short summary time, then.
Basically I've spent the last few weeks trying to get my head around ROS, a software package for coding operating protocols, algorithms, navigation, message passing etc for robot hardware. It's good for simulations too, which is what I'd like to have done in a week or so. I suffered a big-ish setback when I found out the version I was using was obsolete and had to start again with the new build environment called "catkin". I'm guessing the changes are mostly under the hood because it seems somewhat less intuitive than the first version.
So now I'm spending my time trying to work out how to get Max Sum into a form suitable for simulation, which is quite daunting given that I have no experience in software engineering before now and with multiple interacting parts to consider, that's very much what I'm faced with. The sums and functions themselves aren't all that complex, although translating my understanding of Max Sum from a simple graph-colouring exercise into task allocation is proving trickier than first imagined. Let's see how it goes.
-Chris
Basically I've spent the last few weeks trying to get my head around ROS, a software package for coding operating protocols, algorithms, navigation, message passing etc for robot hardware. It's good for simulations too, which is what I'd like to have done in a week or so. I suffered a big-ish setback when I found out the version I was using was obsolete and had to start again with the new build environment called "catkin". I'm guessing the changes are mostly under the hood because it seems somewhat less intuitive than the first version.
So now I'm spending my time trying to work out how to get Max Sum into a form suitable for simulation, which is quite daunting given that I have no experience in software engineering before now and with multiple interacting parts to consider, that's very much what I'm faced with. The sums and functions themselves aren't all that complex, although translating my understanding of Max Sum from a simple graph-colouring exercise into task allocation is proving trickier than first imagined. Let's see how it goes.
-Chris
