bvenv¶

This is a meta-package that manages the installation of all the software necessary for the bootstrapping simulations contained in the paper that can be found at the page http://purl.org/censi/2010/boot. (“bvenv” stands for “Bootstrapping Vehicles Environment”)

It utilizes the following packages. Each has its own repository.

• bvexp201007 contains the code that manages the simulations.
• pybv is a python simulator of the various sensors and random environments.
• raytracer is a C++ raytracer used by pybv to simulate a range-finder.
• snp_geometry contains some utils to manipulate poses.
• reprep is a library used for creating reports in html (for inspection) and their latex versions (for publishing).
• compmake is a parallel “make” for batch python processes – the weeks I used to write this were well repaid by the time it made me save for the bootstrapping simulations.
• json-c is a port to ansi-c, with some addons, of a popular C JSON library.
• jsonstream contains Python functions to read a stream of JSON objects.
• patience is the script that automates downloading and installing of the other packages.

I found out that having very small libraries/repositories and aggregating meta-packages works very well for me for code reuse.

Download and install¶

For history, branches, etc., see the github page http://github.com/AndreaCensi/bvenv

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/AndreaCensi/bvexp201007