Run RoboNetSim through the console

[robertomagan]

Dear all,

I'm wondering if there is any way to run RoboNetSim without the visual interface (from ARGoS). I would be an issue related to ARGoS, because the NS3 part of RoboNetSim does not have a GUI. Is someone know how can I do this?

Thanks in advance!

All the best,
Roberto.

[pincy]

Hi Roberto,

Running ARGoS without the GUI is actually pretty simple: remove the <qt-opengl> section from the XML file.

Cheers,
Carlo

[robertomagan]

Right! I seem so simple as you told

Thanks for your quick answer!

All the best,
Roberto.

[robertomagan]

Hi all!

I successfully made a test without the GUI of ARGoS, but sadly, the time expent by the test does not corresponds with real time. It run so quick! I mean, for example, I set up an experiment with a total experiment time of 750 seconds, but it has not been running more than 10 seconds! Is there any way to run an experiment without ARGoS GUI and in real time? On the contrary if you run through the GUI, the experiment runs in real time, one second in simulation corresponds with one second in real time.

Thanks in advance.

All the best,
Roberto.

P.D.: I'm using ARGoS 2.2

[pincy]

Hi,

Thanks for trying ARGoS out!

Real-time execution is a feature that was added in ARGoS3, but unfortunately is not present in ARGoS2.

RoboNetSim has not been integrated with ARGoS3 yet, but it will in the future.

Two choices:

1. Patching ARGoS2 to have real-time execution (easy);
2. Integrating RoboNetSim in ARGoS3 (hard).

I'll try and go for solution 1. It'll take a day or two, since in these days I'm a little busy. I'll come back to you soon.

Cheers,
Carlo

[robertomagan]

Hi Carlo!

Thanks for your support! Currently I will not use RoboNetSim in a short period of time at least. I'm only using ARGoS.

If you pass me the patch it would by so appreciated Thanks for all!

All the best,
Roberto.

[pincy]

Hi Roberto,

Here is the patch. You need to apply it to the argos2 sources.

You find the original sources at this link: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/argos/upload/re ... 21.tar.bz2. Open a terminal and type these commands:

1. Download the sources:

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$ wget http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/argos/upload/releases/argos2-source-20120521.tar.bz2

2. Unpack them and go into the argos2 source directory:

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$ tar xf argos2-source-20120521.tar.bz2 $ cd argos2

3. Download the patch attached to this post and put it somewhere. In the following command I will refer to the location as $PATCHDIR.

4. Apply the patch (be sure to be in the argos2 directory!):

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$ patch -p1 < $PATCHDIR/argos2_20120521_realtime.patch

5. Build the code:

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$ ./build.sh

6. Make a package, for instance for Debian:

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$ ./make_distribution.sh debian

7. Remove the old version of argos you had:

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$ sudo dpkg -r argos2

8. Install the new package (make sure you're in the argos2 directory):

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$ sudo dpkg -i argos2-*-.deb

To use the new real-time flag when the visualization is not on, just add the attribute real_time="true" to the XML file:

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<experiment random_seed="12345" ticks_per_second="10" length="600" real_time="true" />

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers,
Carlo