Eurobot AI

This is a node-js based intelligence to be used in the Eurobot and Coupe de France de Robotique contests. It is designed to be used on a rasberryPi, but is also used on Win/Mac/Linux for debug purposes.

It can be interfaced with microcontrollers through serial ports or wathever available on the host board.

Installation

Most of the command bellow will be addressed for a rapberryPi installation, on other plaforms read the text and use google, nothing is tricky.

NPM

• Run uname -m to get your arch, and wget the corresponding file of the download page
• To uncompress, you might need xz -d file.tar.gz.xz and tar -xzf file.tar.gz or tar -xf file.tar
• cd in the extracted folder and install with sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
• voilà

Clone the repo

• Move to the desired folder and git clone the repository, or download it.

Install npm packages

The project requires a fex dependencies to run properly (it's a npm project!). One of them opencv4nodejs will take an extra long time to install on machines (hours on a raspberry pi)

• If you are on a raspberry, create a temporary swap file. A swap creates a virtual RAM file on your disk/SD card to temporarly let big programs run (required for the openCV compilation to succeed).
  • sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff
  • sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile and edit to CONF_SWAPSIZE=2048
  • sudo dphys-swapfile setup
  • sudo dphys-swapfile swapon
• Install compilation and execution requirments with sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev mpg321
• INstal npm compilation helper npm install -g node-gyp
• From the repositry root, install npm packages with npm i (This will be long, a few errors might appear, but unless its stops it's OK!)
• A few packets need an extra compilation step, to do so, run:
  • npm install serialport --build-from-source