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The Off-Line Interface

The off-line interface of the simulator consists in a set of files that allow to define grounds, landmarks sets, robots, and robot controllers. How to program a robot controller is described in detail in chapter 3. In the following subsections the ground, the landmarks and the robot configuration file formats are described. In the file sim.cfg  the user can indicate which ground, landmark, and robot files to load at startup. However, the on-line interface described before allow the user to load a new file of any of these types whenever required.

All this configuration files are text files in which information fields (numbers, positions, ...) are preceded by text descriptions ended by the symbol ':'. The contents of the description field does not matters and can be changed to fit user preferences but the symbol ':' should be there in all the cases to separate between text and input data otherwise the simulator would fail (i.e. crash or enter in an infinite loop) when reading the file.



 

Josep M. Porta Pleite
8/2/2000