pawel-jakubowski / mapping-system

Event based controller for scalable robotic swarm that map given area

mapping-system

Event based controller for scalable robotic swarm that map given area

Requirements

Python 2.7.10 with following packages:

• argparse (1.2.1)
• enum (0.4.6)
• protobuf (2.6.1)
• pyzmq (15.1.0)
• wheel (0.24.0)

Controller

To run controller just call python controller.py from root repository directory.

❗ Remember to start simulator first.

usage: controller.py [-h] [-s SPEED]

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-s SPEED, --speed SPEED
                    robots speed

Simulator

To run simulator just call python simulator.py from root repository directory.

usage: simulator.py [-h] [-t]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -t, --test  test mode (without communication)

mapping-system's Issues

Communication slows down GUI

I think it is because we use polling at the time, when we probably need event - callback system.

In TkInter this after command just put function to be executed "after" given amount of time. So robots animation goes like this:
TkInter instructions -> after 1ms -> robot animation -> TkInter instructions -> ...
so we cannot run polling that probably runs for more than 1 ms.