2 CARTOONS

2 CARTOONS 
 

I came across 2 cartoons while documenting various different algorithms for mobile robot path planning. Both these cartoons makes an agile researcher of this field squint and follow it up with a smirk (or script a LOL !) .

The first one is from willowgarage .

While the second one is from Arkin's book .

Both these cartoons succinctly illustrate the issues in the 'apparently simple' philosophy of path planning.

MAPS AFTER VACATION

MAPS AFTER VACATION

Back from vacation and time to pick were my work was left off ..

Using player log to create a map ..... never knew that player/stage comes with inbuilt utility pmap utility.

on running the command $pmaptest -g "logname" -g non gui mode  

this produces a pretty neat map make sure pmaptest is built and linked and give a log file ... there are other options too 

I used writelog driver to generate the log

driver
(
name "writelog" log_directory "/home/iis-tainee/Downloads/logs"
basename "mydata"
requires ["laser:0" "position2d:0"]
provides ["log:0"]
alwayson 1
autorecord 1
)

WALL-E & EVA - 2.0

WALL-E & EVA - 2.0 

If robots could have romantic mushy chit-chat, how would it be ? The idea is given a comical angle with a python script utilising the random module and the time module.

A script which gives output as the following, 

and on other times as,

.... still other occasions,

Guess romance has its own odds !

Many thanks Luke, this mushy program works nice ! 

The Python script is available here.