This page is deprecated. It has been replaced by the Running section of the build instructions.

Instructions for Running UBC SRVC 2008 Contest Code

• All code is located in SVN as described on the main SRVC page. Grab it from there and run make in all necessary directories. There is no list for this, so you just have to check for each place there is a Makefile. We should really consolidate this into one step.

Web Phase

• Prepare the list of desired objects and place it under WEB/webImages
• Ensure that the result image directory does not initially exist. Currently WEB/webImages/resultImages
• Open Matlab in the directory CLASSIFY/ImageMatching
• Run the script training.m
• Image results are placed in WEB/webImages/resultImages and some book-keeping info is stored in CLASSIFY/ImageMatching

Robot Phase

• Connect the laptop and power-up the robot. Remember the following items:
  • Mount the Cannon camera pointing straight forward and change the battery or confirm it's fresh. Power up the camera and click ignore on the dialogue.
  • Connect the Bumblebee's firewire connection and USB (for power)
  • Plug in the straight-through ethernet cable
  • Power-up the robot and its on-board computer
  • Run the configuration script. On laptop "sudo sh reboot.sh"

• Start required servers on the robot:
  • Player/Stage with the config file powerbot.cfg - the command "player powerbot.cfg"
  • Our own local server in the directory ROBOT/initial/main with the command ./server_mini -r -n -vskip

-- DavidMeger - 06 Mar 2008