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simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/27 17:21 i was reading the code for the lrf and the simulated sonar here and i was wondering where the simulated sonar stored it's state variables and operations.

the lrf has a SickLRFState.cs file if i remembered right and it has a class called SickLRFOperations.

does the simulated sonar have those kind of state files and operation classes?

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Re:simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/28 09:44 Yes, you are right, the Sonar service has analogous structure. Indeed, what I do is to implement the generic contract for sonar provided by MSRS. Therefore, I don't really need to define new classes for state and operations, they are already there as part of the generic contract definition. What I do is to reference to the RoboticsCommon assembly, where the generic contract is defined and then use these types:

Code:


 // Raul - SONAR Generic Contract
using pxsonar = Microsoft.Robotics.Services.Sonar.Proxy;

As I am implementing the generic contract, I have an alternate contract identifier:

Code:


 [AlternateContract(pxsonar.Contract.Identifier)]

This is the state definition taken from the generic contract:

Code:


 private pxsonar.SonarState _state = null;

And I also use the sonar operations definition from the generic contract:

Code:


 [ServicePort("/SimulatedSonar", AllowMultipleInstances = true)]
private pxsonar.SonarOperations _mainPort = new pxsonar.SonarOperations();

By the way, I've seen in my code that I added a comment saying that the service models just one single transducer. That is wrong!! That was my older idea, but I ended up modeling the Pioneer frontal sonar ring with 8 transducers! And therefore, I allocate 8 positions in the array of doubles that represents sonar measurements in the Sonar service state:

Code:


 /// <summary>
/// Number of SONAR devices in the simulated SONAR Ring.
/// </summary>
public const int SonarArrayLength = 8;

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Re:simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/28 12:22 oh i see... so, if for example i need to use the SonarOperations class with the simulated sonar, i will have something like

SonarEntity sonar= new SonarEntity();

sonar.SonarOperations _mainport= new sonar.SonarOperations();

and for it's state something like

private sonar.SonarState _state = null;

am i correct?

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Re:simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/28 13:29 or something like...

using sonar= Cranium.Simulation.Sensors.Proxy;
sonar.SonarOperations _mainport= new sonar.SonarOperations();

and for it's state something like

private sonar.SonarState _state = null;

something like that?

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Re:simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/28 15:08 Well, what you probably want is to subscribe to the sonar service and get notifications when its states changes, i.e. get the new sonar readings when they robot has moved (or something moved in front of the sonar).

In order to do that, you should use the generic contract for sonar and declare a parter of your service, something like this:

Code:


 // Raul - Sonar generic contract
using pxsonar = Microsoft.Robotics.Services.Sonar.Proxy;

...


[Partner("Sonar", Contract = pxsonar.Contract.Identifier, CreationPolicy = PartnerCreationPolicy.UseExisting)]
pxsonar.SonarOperations _sonarPort = 
                 new pxsonar.SonarOperations();
pxsonar.SonarOperations _sonarNotify = 
                 new pxsonar.SonarOperations();

...

// Within your start() method, maybe within an Interleave:
Arbiter.ReceiveWithIterator<pxsonar.Replace>(true, _sonarNotify, OnSonarReplaceHandler),

Have a look to the service tutorials if you have doubts about how the subscription works. Then, you could find useful to have a look to my code in ExplorerSimSonar that uses the Simulated Sonar.

Remember that you _mainport is for your own service opeations. For sonar notifications you declare another port as shown above.

Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2008/08/28 15:09 Raúl Arrabales Moreno. conscious-robots.com/raul

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Re:simulated sonar, states and operations - 2008/08/28 16:40 cool! thanks.

i'll try that. i'm sorry if i'm a little persistent. hahaha

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