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Arduino Service should be made compatible with the Firmata protocol

Currently there are "helper" function which box and un-box parameters for 
methods.  These should be refactored into dealing only with a single signature 
uses variable args

Discrete adding and removing should be allowed when RuntimeEnvironment is 
changed.  Currently, loadPanels is called which re-initializes all of the 
panels in the gui.

The structure should be simple
Use apache-http commons?
If not installed - pop-up licence agreement with appropriate licences 

The initial request will retrieve the pom like file - 
in which it will get the new details of dependencies

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. connect two different MRLs together
2. connect a clock to a logger
3. refresh the gui's twice
3. send a pulse - the message will be duplicated

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
non duplicate messages

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Create a ChatBot Service

Start a ChatBot service based on the following references :

 * References :
 *  http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36106/Chatbot-Tutorial
 *  http://cleverbot.com/
 *  http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i256/f06/projects/bonniejc.pdf
 *  http://www.infradrive.com/downloads/articles/Article1.pdf
 *  http://www.chatterbotcollection.com/

I found the source for the ChatBot 17 source - it needs to be ported from cpp 
to Java.  When the initial port is done, the Chat bot should have an interface 
to chat with the Drupal shoutbox - and provide a means for "OnLine Learning" 
!!!!

Currently there are "helper" function which box and un-box parameters for 
methods.  These should be refactored into dealing only with a single signature 
uses variable args

An audio cache would be helpful since JFugue is extremely slow at creating all 
its great sounds.  Also, the option of blocking on a sound would be a great 
enhancement too.

RuntimeEnvironment needs encapsulation in a Service

will need to recompile binaries with ENABLE_SSE & ENABLE_SSE2 & ENABLE_MMX 
flags set to false

Will need to check all filters:

Currently Broken ones include

HoughLines2 - cvGetSeqElem
GoodFeaturesToTrack
LKOpticalTrack
SetImageRoi

Something very strange happened to the arrays of CVPoint32f

These lower level methods should append type information so that they will 
never conflict with actual service methods.  Recorder.save() for example

Pause service will be helpful in behavioral state simulations where subsumption 
is used to repress unwanted behaviors

What steps will reproduce the problem?
opencv.notify("publish", name, "publish", Polygon.class);
opencv.notify("publish", name, "publish", IplImage.class);

will generate a duplicate message error

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
They should resolve to their respective endpoints
The outbox key needs type info.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When screen dimension is =< 800x600 - ArduinoGUI runs off the end
2. Previously scrollbars would allow accessability - they should be restored

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


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new update to JGraph affected this

A new method of communicating Service state information would be a 
"PublishState". Configuration could possibly be eliminated.  State information 
would be in local variables/fields. 

Binary serialization could be done using Java's default serialization.  Textual 
serialization could be done with reflection into various templates forms 
(Properties & XML)

Partial state information could be send depending on need.

DifferentialDrive is the first one to use this system.

ServiceEntry and other registry framework data should uses this new method.

Still don't know if the description should be implemented with Annotations, 
Javadocs, or other devices.  Needs more context data for example AI, Actuators, 
Sensors, Simulators, Robots, etc..

For all services canned input could be saved for some of them and a basic test 
of resulting output could be checked

GUI examples
Logging Examples
Arduino examples - multiple - strategy of making the most inexpensive robot 
(BBB + BlueTooth + Sensors (IR, Ping, Encoder) - small and inexpensive yet can 
do full SLAM
Android SDK Harness App - small, yet common & powerful device - full SLAM
Childrens Laser show

Until someone has a better resource - hand draw them to avoid cc images

Remove cfg and hostcfg from all Services.

Implement a reflective serializer/deserializer for configuration needs

AndroidBT (bluetooth) was created since Arduino was tied to RXTXComm serial 
ports and Android utilizes Android bluetooth socket api - They are not 
compatible, however, org.myrobotlab.serial package was created to eliminate 
these issues.

Once Arduino Service is verified to work with Android, AndroidBT should be 
removed

One of the reasons Arduino is successful, is the IDE wraps or contains all the 
parts needed in order to get up and running quickly.  No one needs to "know" 
Processing, or Java, or Eclipse in order to start building new applications.

Eclipse is a fantastic editor for Java, but not necessarily what a novice MRL 
user needs (or wants).

In that way, it would be useful to have an editor/programmer come with MRL so 
that users/novice programmers can begin their "programming" experience 
immediately.

I would make a Groovy editor with Java as it appears to be one of the most 
popular "scripting" languages and was build on the Java and the Java API.

Currently the control gui panels are not compatbile with eclipse's 
WindowBuilder gui editor
init() can be loaded with a special comment, but ServiceGUI and GridBoxLayout 
constraints pose a problem

Quickly wrap RoombaComm - ivy it into repo

Support different 
Versions
Platforms
based on Ivy structure - but not Ivy

There needs to be a byLength or a byStopString.
Other parameters needed are whether to strip the stop string or delimeter.

Make it non-Arduino specific - power/direction is -1.0 <-> 0 <-> 1.0
Create interface for addListener(Encoder interface)
So that something which can count (relative encoder, absolute encoder,  timer, 
etc) can control the motors functions - stop specifically..

Motor m = new Motor("mymotor");
m.addEncoder(new Timer("t1));
m.moveTo(pwr, position);  // where position is in this case some time quantity. 
 had it been an actual encoder the position woud be some relative increment or 
absolute position

adding an Encoder will setup the message routes and event hanldlers

List API Docs here :

JNA and JavaCV objects need to be isolated to OpenCV - published data in 
messages should be transfered in native Java objects.

A new third party library installer is needed - the repo is getting much too 
large
Once question would be, where should the repo be maintained?  Google code or 
myrobotlab.org.  Development would be faster on myrobotlab.org.  It could be 
put into svn there too.

port settings baud / 8n1 port name need to be saved - and auto-re-read when 
started again...

Would it be better to serialize the entire Service?
The GNU port class can not be serialized - 

Arduino is pretty good and doing the logic :  which I believe if there is only 
1 choice or if configuration has previously been saved it re-selects that 
single port

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. add a service - especially with focus on last panel
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
a single tab entered & no exceptions
instead
multiple panels of the same type & name exist

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I believe the issue stems from multi-threaded problem changing the tab count 
and index out of order.  Look at details why loadPanels is being called more 
than one time per service addition.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Java 7 on windows 7 64 bit
2. Start MRL
3. Attempt to install/download OpenCV Service

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Download does not proceed - stuck

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Add QR Code for processing QR Markers and info
This could be used as location markers such as "Recharge Wall Socket Here" or 
room identifiers like "Living Room"

Relevant Links:

* http://www.qrstuff.com/qr_codes.html - details of the qr code
* http://directory.fsf.org/project/libdecodeqr/ - last known location of source 
- as http://trac.koka-in.org/libdecodeqr is broken
* http://alexkarpus.com/opencv/ - excellent information regarding compiling on 
mobile phones

Currently they are in the Invoker as well as RuntimeEnvironment

Invoker should control the interface of access to RuntimeEnvironment - but 
RuntimeEnvironment should offer all of the tools regarding manipulating the 
environment

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.set up a message route who's endpoint is a private method
2.send message


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
error logged saying function can not be found
instead no error logged

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Extract zip to C:\
2.double click myrobotlab.bat
3.error received about "Windows cannot find javaw."

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
what is expected is the program to run.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Newest download as of 2/3/2013 on Windows 8 Pro 32-bit

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