GPS robotics by Aristo Tacoma


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G15 PMN Spreadsheet, also called "GPS",
is an application using the core
definitions of FCM inside G15 PMN.
[For all standard G15 PMN apps,
consult 
norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm]






Here GPS is elegantly expanded so that
it permits interactive control over
robots, and indeed program integration
with FCM for real robotic work
--which is entirely free of the
inconsequential thinking which goes 
under the term "AI" and its fancy 
variations; "AI" is but a slogan 
covering up nonthinking. 
More about this in Library.
More about author and quicklinks here.
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A useful app for those who explore
the G15 PMN FCM approach to robotics
with its G15RBT and G15RCAM packages.
This app is a stand-alone extract
of the on-going work with free 
downloads below, that can be used to
learn about the 14 match images in
relation to any 160x112 bit pixel
images that are input from each camera
in ongoing robot work, so as to program
FCM pattern matching:

App #1005768: DOWNLOAD.
Completed date 2024:8:21. 
Written by Aristo Tacoma.

The app just above is for 
G15 PMN proper, ie, interactive 
but some other apps on this 
page are tailor-made to 
work both with G15 PMN in
standard interactive version
AND with the G15 BG Batch
Graphics version, which is
grand for robotics as it can
go in the background on a small
screen and a not-too-fast
computer with only as much 
CPU usage as required
for pattern matching and
goal sorting relative to the
robotic hardware.





THE G15RBT AND G15RCAM AS HERE PRESENTED
WITH FREE DOWNLOADS JUST BENEATH ARE, 
AT SOME INTERACTION POINTS, 
TAILOR-MADE FOR A LINUX ENVIRONMENT.
HOWEVER THESE POINTS ARE FEW AND
THESE CARDS ARE EASILY REPROGRAMMED 
FOR ANOTHER ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING 
DOS IN VIRTUALBOX, AND, WHEN IT'S 
READY SOME YEAR IN THE FUTURE, 
THE PC DESIGNED AROUND THE PHYSICAL 
G15 CPU WHERE G15 PMN RUNS NATIVELY 
AS AN OS


Hardware: At present we work with the
excellent open source licensed
robotic hardware product by the Chinese
factory Ufactory, called xArm7,
with G15 PMN throning over it
through Ubuntu in its
latest long-term release, as
sole platform on a powerful Asus
laptop. If you can afford an xArm7
there is no easier installation
instructions for Ubuntu for it
than here--and Ubuntu is much
more robot- and first-hand
programming friendly than Windows,
which is not as much an operating
system as a hardware-bound 
emulation with surface features 
of an operating system. Meaning,
they are in control, and as such,
no real programming on Ms Windows
can be done.

Full installation info:
[[[Note: project is in very early
stage and is updated all the time,
see update date inside this text:]]]

initrbt.txt

Get the development program package:

g15rbt.zip

The G15RBT is for instructing the
motions of the robot. When you have
got it going, set up the G15RCAM,
next, in exactly the same way, with
the same 'xarm' subfolder and all,
to work with camera input from it.

g15rcam.zip

See the open source licenses involved
and pls respect these. 



G15BG: G15 PMN in Batch Graphics version
for Linux 64-bit Amd/Intel and Android
Phones ARM and some other ARM Linux'es

This is an aspect of the G15RBT package,
and can be used for production setups
with robots, and as an informal little
extra programming terminal on a tiny
Android device. All you need are standard
free open source programs like Xterm for
Linux and the .six-image enabled 
Termux/Monet, an excellent open source
package which is a fork of the also
excellent open source package Termux,
for Android, here included (respect
their licenses).

Installation instructions: here.
These are also inside the zip, but read
them carefully first. Linux-users:
There is usually a little bit extra you 
must type to enable Xterm to work with 
.six images in a proper font and with a 
proper SHIFT-INS style of copy/paste-function
in a Debian-oriented Linux like Ubuntu.
This you'll find easily on Askubuntu.com
but I have summarized them here, in
these two (slightly cryptic) comment
sections of these two tiny .txt files:
making_libsixel_work_in_ubuntu.txt
and: info_howtostart_xterm_sixel.txt
=======================================
The G15BG package, Ubuntu and similar
Linuxes, and Android, with ready-to-run
binaries: g15bg.zip
Once you get the knack of using G15BG,
you'll find that it is excitingly fast
and equally excitingly low in system
resource demand and, once you have
ironed out the kinks, it is a factory/
production/active domestic robot
oriented way of running G15 PMN FCM
robotic node networks, also on small
computers like Raspberry Pi.
Fast hint: learn how to use the Third
Foundation with G15BG and its SCAN
and CAR functions, instead of going by
the CAR editor. Click CTR-P for a
larger screen-image than that which
is produced at ENTER.
======================================

FOR G15BG USERS PLEASE NOTE:
Any highly user-interactive feature of
G15 PMN and also timing/pause stuff
aren't used in G15 Batch Graphics and
so references to 'activepause', 'CK',
etc must typically be altered at a 
few points in such as the spreadsheet,
in the 'scan' function (the robotics
app comes along with a 'bgscan' that
does this so the Third Foundation is
unchanged). See the completed robotics
apps as for what they suggest when it
comes to G15BG usage for the fullest
documentation and programs that are
fully compatible with G15BG without
further alteration. 



EXTRA
Here's a couple of the standard 
G15 PMN programs you can try with 
G15BG, including editor: bgextra1.zip
Read its info: bgextra1.txt
It is easy to set up more programs
yourself to be used with the mountf
command, just get them to run from
card 1 in fdisk, then rename them
suitably.

More for G15BG: some utility programs
as included in standard G15 PMN,
including export from B9edit to .txt 
file: bgextra2.zip
Its info: bgextra2.txt






Aristo Tacoma
alias Stein Henning Braten Reusch 
alias SRWweber
Editor, BERLiNiB fashion magazine