Re: [robocup-rescue-s] A few problems with the new release

From: Cameron Skinner <cam@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Sun 26 Mar 2006 - 23:59:20 GMT

Hi.

Please make bug reports via sourceforge
(http://www.sf.net/projects/roborescue/).

Thanks,
Cameron.

Hamid Hamraz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's a few days I'm trying to adapt my yab-based code to the new version
> of the server i.e. 0.49.x, but I still have some problems.
>
> I think there is something wrong with the message passing system of the
> new release; I created a map with just one fire brigade and a station. I
> assigned the brigade to tell a string ("the message") at cycle 5, and
> the station to just hear. what the station was hearing is as follows
> (the number before the colon designates the time).
> 6: "the message"
> 7: "the message"
> 8: "the message"
> 9: "the message"
> ...
>
> The hearing should be like this:
> 5: "the message"
>
> This is a clue to at least two errors. First and the obvious one is the
> repetition of the hearings, and the second is that the message should be
> received by the station at the same cycle of its transmission since the
> brigade was sending that at the beginning of the cycle. I mean that the
> message system should be implemented independent of the cycles, and the
> kernel should pass the messages as soon as it receives then (that is
> what was provided by the previous versions and also indicated in manual
> version 1.0 by Morimoto). I guess, not sure, that the messages are
> implemented depending on the cycles; that is the server passes them by
> the start of the next cycle. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> The new release has some problems with the maps. For instance, I could
> not run this year's qualification maps with the new server; the viewer
> shapes were deformed. I don't know whether that's a bug or a
> modification in the format of the maps. However, if it is not a bug,
> please show me how can I convert the world cup 2005 maps to the new format.
>
> I found out in the config.txt that the step is set to 1000, which was
> 2000 before; it's a critical point. I'd like to know if it is a TC
> decision and will be used during 2006 competitions, or is just a mistake.
>
> I couldn't run the logviewer yet. I did add that line to the LogIO.java,
> but it still does not work!
>
> The final word, I would like to see why the manual is excluded from the
> simulator package. I know that it is a little obsolete, but a simple
> revision by TC after the changing will not be a time-consuming job.
> Moreover, it can be a very useful source especially for new comers, and
> they will not encounter basic problems such as message length, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Hamid Hamraz,
> Iran University of Science and Technology.
>
>
>
>
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