Labbook Accompany

11 September

• Progress meeting at Stuttgart.
• Downloaded https://github.com/bterwijn/accompany.git. Followed instructions in UvA/README.txt.
• Downloaded git://basterwijn.nl/home/bterwijn/git/cmnGwenn.git. Tried to do cmake ., which tried to make a VisualStudio 10 project in a Visual Studio 2008 prompt. Cmake failed on VCTargetPath not defined for MSBuild. Should try cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64" .. This works better, Cmake fails on missing vnl/vnl_vector.h (install 'libvxl-dev' or set VXL_BASE_DIR.
• According to the vxl documentation, installation under Windows is possible. Defined VXLSRC, and run cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008 Win64" . Finalized, although there seems to be missing dependence on EXPAT and DIRECTSHOW. Downloaded http://sourceforge.net/projects/vxl/files/vxl/1.17/vxl-1.17.0.zip.
• Opened vxl.sln with VS2008. Most projects build, some failed (couldn't find python26_d.lib, which is in $(PYTHONHOME)\lib. Added library, but still many unresolved symbols (do I need python26_dll)? Question is if I need all this projects for Gwen's library.

9 May 2012

• Architecture meeting at the University of Hertfordshire.
• There is now a project wiki available.
• Also a github is started. Source documentation should made on the ros-wiki. The github should contain readme's how to start the modules. Deliverables should be made available on the project-website. The location of TechReports is not completely clear to me.
• Difference between a service and an action in ROS is that a service is blocking, while an action is a request which could be handled later.
• The multiple persons can publish observations as unknown objects (persons with an empty name), until the FaceDetection gives it a name/label.
• Part of the logic of combining sensor conditions will be in the User Model, which will notify the Procedural Memory (state machine).
• The Procedural Memory will activate the Action Modulator by sending Python scripts.

8 May 2012

• Read ActiveMQ's Getting Started, but unfortunally it doesn't give an overview (just installation instructions).

7 May 2012

• Preparing the architecture meeting this Wednesday.
• Read Gwen's BNAIC article Fast Bayesian People Detection.

17 January 2012

• Read an article giving an overview of the hardware and software of the Care-O-robot. Simulation is based on Gazebo, both an ROS and OROCOS interface is available.