README

experiments-loop-functions

This package contains the source for unified handling of loop fonctions to assess performances in automatic design methods. It also contains the specific implementation of loop functions for missions from different AutoMoDe related studies.

All useful information about the AutoMoDe package, including installation and utilization instructions, are regrouped in the following technical report (techrep). Please cite this report if you any ARGoS3-AutoMoDe related package.

Package content

• loop-functions/ contains all sources for loop functions for specific missions from different AutoMoDe related studies.
• src/ contains the core source files and mother class from which all loop functions are derived.

Installation

Dependencies

• ARGoS3 (3.0.0-beta48)
• argos3-epuck (v48)

Compiling and installing

$ git clone https://github.com/demiurge-project/experiments-loop-functions.git
$ cd experiments-loop-functions
$ mkdir build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

Once compiled and installed the shared library and header files are installed in the system.

If you do not have root access off what to install in a your local argos distribution folder use (if your argos installation is located in ~/argos-dist):

$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/argos-dist
$ make
$ make install

How to use

This package is meant to be used as a library to allow unified definition of loop functions for performance assessment for different automatic design methods. It is used in AutoMoDe, Evostick and other automatic design methods (see references).

References

Bibliography

• [techrep] Ligot, A., Hasselmann, K., Delhaisse, B., Garattoni, L., Francesca, G., & Birattari, M. (2017). AutoMoDe, NEAT, and EvoStick: implementations for the E-puck robot in ARGoS3. Technical report TR/IRIDIA/2017-002, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• [chocolate] Francesca, G., Brambilla, M., Brutschy, A., Garattoni, L., Miletitch, R., Podevijn, G., ... & Mascia, F. (2015). AutoMoDe-Chocolate: automatic design of control software for robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 9(2-3), 125-152.
• [gianduja] Hasselmann K., Robert F., Birattari M. (2018) Automatic Design of Communication-Based Behaviors for Robot Swarms. In: Dorigo M., Birattari M., Blum C., Christensen A., Reina A., Trianni V. (eds) Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11172. Springer, Cham