Archive for August, 2006

Shared World Information Spec

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

The first very early version of our Shared World Information (SWI) specification is now online. It outlines the data structure we plan to use for inter-team communication. You can find it here: http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/swi.pdf.
The Message Definition Language translation tool (“The TOOL”) will be released later this year.

Institute’s Newsletter

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Our contribution to the institute’s newsletter can be found here:
http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/Newsletter.pdf

Software Release 2006

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

The software framework that powered our robots in 2006 is now available for download as a tarball:
http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/pub/CarpeNoctem-2006.tar.gz.
The subversion repository where cleanups will go can be found here:
http://svn.npw.net/cnpublic/
Unfortunately, documentation is scarce and we failed to clean up the code. So good luck for digging into potentially unreadable code :). It is released under a BSD-like license [...]

This was Bremen 2006

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

We’ve arrived in Kassel yesterday at about 9pm. After unloading our baggage and the robots everybody went straight home. It was a very exciting, interesting but also exhausting week. We’ve achieved something we would have never anticipated. The cooperation within the team was very good and the comments from other teams were really motivating.
In the [...]