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This wiki is intended to provide a space for COMP4411 students (and staff) to share hints, tips, ideas, solutions and the like, related to the experimental robotics course. You should also check the Robolab wiki for more general information about the Robotics Laboratory.

Contents 1 About the Course 2 Robots and Hardware 3 Software Packages 4 News

About the Course

• Course Outline 2010s1
  • Previous course outlines: Course Format; [2009s1 Course Outline]
• Lecture 1 slides
• List of Completed Projects & Current Projects
• List of Suggested Projects and Project slides
• Assignment 1
• Accounts
• Problems - Who to See
• End of Session Checklist
• OH&S

Robots and Hardware

• ActivMedia Pioneer Guide
• Volksbot
• AVR Boards and Sensors
• Available Hardware
• Computers

Software Packages

• Player Guide
• OpenCV Guide
• Subversion
• RobotServ and RobotGUI
• Other Useful Software Packages

News

• 2010-03-16: Course Outline updated
• 2010-03-15: Assignment 1 updated
• 2009-04-20: General information is slowly being migrated to the Robolab wiki.
• 2007-06-05: Groups, please put information about your projects in the appropriate pages linked from the List of Completed Projects.
• 2007-03-16: I have updated Assignment 1 with some important notes.
• 2007-03-12: Due to some lingering quirky bugs in pmap the version installed in the labs (and also distributed as source from robolab) hasn't worked correctly. This problem has been addressed in the source tarball, and an updated has been installed on the lab machines.
• 2007-03-08: Player/Stage has been installed on the lab machines in /usr/local.
• 2007-03-07: Assignment 1 has been slightly updated. The files required have changed slightly. If you have already started, please be sure to copy the files from robolab again.
• 2006-03-27: Due to a spambot problem, you'll now have to create an account and login to make changes to the wiki.