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One of the perks of writing for a global behemoth like ESPN is that you get randomly requested to be interviewed by radio stations across the globe.
So I'll often get to boast, "I was on national radio today" to friends, before throwing in the punchline, "in Iceland".
- AVB: This is a defining week for Spurs
I'm pretty certain that I'd never be asked to appear on Icelandic radio again if Gylfi Sigurdsson was transferred, but it's nonetheless nice to take these opportunities while they're there.
This week I spoke to a college radio station in the States, where I was asked for my verdict on whether Spurs would grab a top four spot.
Despite the fact that it was blindingly obvious that I'd be asked this question, I was totally unprepared for its arrival. Over the past couple of weeks I've come to simply hope that Tottenham would qualify for the Champions League, rather than to really think about whether it was possible or not.
In a split-second I had to consider whether I'd go positive or negative. Instinct cut in and I blurted out the following:
"No Brian. I don't think we will."
I then explained to Brian why I didn't think Tottenham would qualify for the Champions League. I couldn't see us beating Chelsea and even worse, history says that we normally lose at Stamford Bridge.
Stoke isn't an easy away game either. Not many teams go there and win. I told Brian that I could see Spurs picking up between seven or eight points from the remaining fixtures and just missing out.
Except none of that is really true. It made logical sense, but the difficult games at Chelsea and Stoke wasn't the real reason why I was saying that Tottenham were going to miss out on the Champions League again.
The truth is that I've got no idea whether the club will finish in the top four.
This is a team that loses at home to Fulham and then whips Manchester City into a brutal submission. There is absolutely no reason in the world that this side couldn't win all four remaining matches and march into the Champions League in third place. Or not.
No, the reason I was being negative was because I didn't want to be positive. Because in that split-second I figured that if I was positive I might just jinx Spurs.
I'm aware that sounds as if I've got something of a god-complex going on here. The thought that my utterances on obscure college radio stations could have a direct influence on a bunch of football matches, none of which involves me in any way (I just deleted the 'really' from 'really involves me'), demonstrates quite the ego.
Yet the fact is that there are millions of mad football supporters just like me. Why, no quicker had I said my piece to Brian, then Brian (a Spurs fan) shot back with, "Yeah, I've been saying that too. I figure if I say we'll miss out then we'll have more of a chance of making it."
It's not just the radio that prompts such crackpot exchanges. Later that evening I had the exact same conversation with a Tottenham supporting friend in the pub. He admitted that he was also playing it safe, in case his cockiness resulted in a random change in the cosmos.
I see it all the time at football. People will go to the toilet during the game in order to prompt a goal, as if emptying their bladder will act as a sacrifice to appease some kind of Spurs-supporting god.
Perhaps the saddest day of my life as a football fan was the 1987 FA Cup final. I was ten years old and this was the first cup final that Tottenham had reached since I'd taken an interest in the game.
Having lost 3-2 to the unfancied Coventry City, I was a tearful mess. I can recall contemplating that if I'd done something different that day -- walked left instead of right, or ripped the wings off a butterfly -- then Spurs might have won the cup.
I could put that down to the naivety of a child, but the fact is that I'm still having these thoughts. Sport and football in particular, seems to have this effect on people.
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Jazz User Manual contains all the information needed to set up your robot, and daily use it: control it with its joystick, control it remotely through Internet (Jazz Connect), set up watch for your premises and configure alerts (Jazz Security), or launch special behaviors (Jazz Connect).
Gostai provides commercial support and services, in the form of support packs that you can purchase (http://gostai.com/support/support_packs/). Gostai experts can help you master the Jazz SDK, and assist you with your with Jazz development. To contact Gostai support: email@example.com.
In order to communicate with, and program Jazz, you need
Please refer to Jazz user manual to know how to setup Jazz on your LAN.
Turn on your robot with the power button. If you have correctly configured your robot to connect on your LAN (see Jazz user manual), it will say its IP address upon start-up. You will use this IP address to access Jazz on your LAN.
If Jazz cannot access LAN, it will start in ad-hoc mode and won't say its IP address. Please refer to Jazz user manual to know how to setup Jazz on your LAN.
If DNS is activated on your Local Area Network, then you can also access Jazz using his host name instead of its IP address. In this documentation A1111FRPA001001 is the Jazz host name.
Gostai Studio Please refer to http://gostai.com/products/studio/gostai_studio/ to get more information about Gostai Studio.
Gostai Lab Please refer to http://gostai.com/products/studio/gostai_lab/ to get more information about Gostai Lab.
Jazz runs the Urbi software platform which exposes all the interfaces you need to program your Jazz robot. From a separate computer, you can connect through the network to the Urbi runtime running in the robot and directly send commands written in urbiscript.
By default, when your Jazz robot is powered on, the Urbi runtime listen to TCP connections established on port 54000. You have to use a telnet client to establish such a connection.
From a GNU/Linux or Mac OS X computer, we recommend that you use netcat (nc) in combination with the rlwrap tool (add nice editing capabilities to your netcat connection, keep a commands history).
$ rlwrap nc A1111FRPA001001 54000
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
[00732235] *** Jazz version 2.10.2 rev. a2aa56e
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Urbi SDK version 2.7.2 rev. 7a6a48f
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It can
[00732235] *** be used under certain conditions. Type 'license;',
[00732235] *** 'authors;', or 'copyright;' for more information.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Check our community site: http://www.urbiforge.org.
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
21+21; // Then type urbiscript commands
[10421607] 42 // Urbi runtime sends you returns value if available
From a Windows computer, we recommend that you use Gostai Console (http://www.gostai.com/download/gostai_console/, see Listing 29.1), a dedicated tool to connect to the Urbi engine running on your Jazz robot.
Specify the host name and port to use ('A1111FRPA001001:54000') in the text field in the top of the window and click on the right to start the connection.
You can use ssh to connect to Jazz and access its filesystem. If you are using Windows you have to install Putty (http://www.putty.org). On Mac OS X or GNU/Linux use the ssh built-in client. To connect through ssh you have to specify in your ssh client:
For example, if Jazz IP address on your LAN is '192.168.1.3', then under GNU/Linux you would have to type in a shell:
$ firstname.lastname@example.com
Login in
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ # Now you are logged in Jazz, you can type shell commands
If Jazz host name is 'A1111FRPA001001' and you have DNS resolution activated in your LAN, type:
$ ssh gostai@A1111FRPA001001
Login in
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ # Now you are logged in Jazz, you can type shell commands
Once you are connected with ssh to your Jazz robot, you arrive in a Bash shell which gives you complete access to Jazz filesystem. If you are not familiar with GNU/Linux and the Bash shell, we advise that you read some Bash tutorial on the Internet to familiarize with Bash basic commands.
It is not mandatory to use ssh to program your Jazz robot. It will only becomes useful if you want to use advanced features like embedding your code in Jazz and have it load at robot start up.
Jazz embed a website that allows you to configure and control it. To access this website, just enter Jazz IP address in your browser (Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome, ...).
Click on the Control menu category to access Jazz local control interface, or click on the Configuration menu to access Jazz configuration pages (WiFi, services launched, ...).
In Jazz internal website (Section 29.1.6), we provide a page you can use to upload your own urbiscript services to Jazz, and made it execute them at startup. To access this page, click on the Configuration menu, then click on the User services sub-menu.
From this page you can change the folder where Jazz will search for your code (by default it's /home/gostai/user). To change it, edit the text field after the label Path to your service folder, then press the Update button below.
You can also upload urbiscript source file to this folder. Click on the Browse button next to the Upload a file to your service folder label. Then choose a file on your computer. It will be automatically uploaded to the robot service folder when you press the Upload button. Once your file was uploaded, it will be listed on the web page.
If you want Jazz to automatically load your urbiscript file at startup, check the check-box next to your file name, and click on the Update button.
In order to upload files on Jazz filesystem you need to have a client supporting the scp protocol.
Under GNU/Linux or similar Unix system, you can use the scp command line tool.
$ # Copy 'myfile.u' to Jazz home folder:
$ scp myfile.u gostai@A1111FRPA001001:/home/gostai/myfile.u
Under windows you can use WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/docs/lang:fr) or Pscp, the scp client that comes with Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ sgtatham/putty/download.html).
You can then verify with ssh that your file is in the robot:
$ ssh gostai@A1111FRPA001001
Login in
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ ls /home/gostai/myfile.u
Gostai provides updates to Jazz software. To verify if updates are available and automatically install them, go to Jazz internal website (Section 29.1.6), click on the Configuration menu, then click on the System sub-menu.
Jazz will check if updates are available, and in case there are, it will display a button that allows you to start the update process. Please do not shutdown Jazz while updating. At the end of the update Jazz will display a message in it's website and automatically restart.
If no updates are available, the message "No updates available" will be displayed instead of the update button.
To start, stop or restart Jazz software (the Urbi runtime plus Jazz Urbi software), you can use the script /etc/init.d/jazz:
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ # shutdown Jazz
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ /etc/init.d/jazz stop
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ # start Jazz
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ /etc/init.d/jazz start
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ # restart Jazz
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ /etc/init.d/jazz restart
The functionality described here is an advanced functionality. Do not use it without first asking advises to Gostai. Misuse can result in Jazz instability or breakage.
Gostai Jazz robot software is modular, and can operate with different software profiles in function of how you want to use the robot: you can activate all its functionalities, or only part of them. We provide an interface that allow to fine tune Jazz in function of your use cases.
To access this interface go to Jazz internal web interface (Section 29.1.6), and choose the Configuration menu, then click on the Services sub-menu.
You can use the shortcut button to set Jazz predefined default configuration, or directly fine tune Jazz activating only the functionalities you need. Please be cautious when doing so, some services have dependencies between each other, some combinations of services might result in Jazz instability. Always request advises from Gostai.
Press the send button when your are done to save the new configuration. Jazz will automatically restart it's software using the new configuration.
With the descriptions of Jazz modules API, we include urbiscript as well as UObjects examples to help you understand how to use the modules.
To play with urbiscript on Jazz, you can open a telnet connection to your robot (use netcat or Gostai Console), and copy and paste the example to evaluate the code.
$ rlwrap nc A1111FRPA001001 54000
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
[00732235] *** Jazz version 2.10.2 rev. a2aa56e
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Urbi SDK version 2.7.2 rev. 7a6a48f
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It can
[00732235] *** be used under certain conditions. Type 'license;',
[00732235] *** 'authors;', or 'copyright;' for more information.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Check our community site: http://www.urbiforge.org.
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
echo("hello world");
[00138887] *** hello world
Alternatively, you can also write the urbiscript code to a file, upload this file on Jazz filesystem using scp, and then load the code from a telnet connection.
$ cat test.u
echo("hello world");
$ scp test.u gostai@A1111FRPA001001:/home/gostai/test.u
$ rlwrap nc A1111FRPA001001 54000
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
[00732235] *** Jazz version 2.10.2 rev. a2aa56e
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Urbi SDK version 2.7.2 rev. 7a6a48f
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It can
[00732235] *** be used under certain conditions. Type 'license;',
[00732235] *** 'authors;', or 'copyright;' for more information.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Check our community site: http://www.urbiforge.org.
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
[00138887] *** hello world
See the Urbi SDK documentation to know how to compile UObjects with Urbi SDK (using either umake-shared (Section 21.10.2) or Visual Studio templates).
Once you have compiled your UObject, you can run it remotely from your computer, or embed it in the robot (you have to compile your UObject with GNU/Linux for it to be usable on the robot).
Compiling on Jazz Compiling on Jazz can be very slow and inconvenient, however it frees you from the need of installing the Urbi SDK on your computer. To compile on Jazz, first verify that umake-shared is available in your PATH.
In case umake-shared is not found, update the PATH variable.
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ which umake-shared
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ export PATH=/usr/local/stow/urbi-sdk/bin:$PATH
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ which umake-shared
Then stop Jazz runtime to free the processor for your compilation.
Upload some UObject code to your robot using scp.
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ cd myuob
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼/myuob$ ls
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼/myuob$ cat test.cc
#include <urbi/uobject.hh>
class Test : public urbi::UObject
Test(const std::string& s)
: urbi::UObject(s)
UBindFunction(Test, init);
int init()
UBindFunction(Test, foo);
return 0;
std::string foo()
return "Hello world";
Now you can compile your UObjects.
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼/myuob$ umake-shared -q -o test
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼/myuob$ ls test.so
You obtain a shared library containing your UObject binary code, that you can load and use from urbiscript.
[00711192] Test
var t = Test.new;
[00718330] Test_0xffffffffb33ab028
[00713182] "Hello world"
Compiling on your Computer See the Urbi SDK documentation to compile on your computer. Use the same version of Urbi SDK that the one used in Jazz for compatibility. To get the version of Urbi used in Jazz see Section 29.5.1.
You can change the color of the leds located in the eyes.
The eyes led objects are available using the Gostai Standard Robotics API compliant name robot.body.head.eye[left] and robot.body.head.eye[right].
// Set the color of the leds in Jazz eyes to green
function green_eyes()
do (robot.body.head)
eye[left].r = 0 & eye[left].g = 255 & eye[left].b = 0 &
eye[right].r = 0 & eye[right].g = 255 & eye[right].b = 0
// Call the function: Jazz eyes becomes green
Jazz robot have automatic docking to its charging station capabilities. The function to launch the algorithm is, of course, Gostai Standard Robotics API compliant. For a description of Jazz docking API please refer to ??.
Jazz's head has two degrees of liberty: horizontal (jazz.body.head.yaw) and vertical (jazz.body.head.pitch).
// Makes Jazz head oscillate horizontally, as if it was saying "no".
// The function stops after the specified duration.
function sayNo(duration)
timeout (duration) {
// Here we assign a sinusoidal trajectory to the head yaw motor:
robot.body.head.yaw.val = sin:2s ampli:0.7;
// Make Jazz say "no" for 10 seconds.
To quickly record your robot audio microphone stream from your computer, you can use the command line tool urbi-sound (Section 21.9).
For example to record 20 seconds of audio, ssh on the robot and do:
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ urbi-sound -h
usage: urbi-sound [options]
record and play (or save) sound from a robot
-h, --help display this message and exit successfully
--version display version information
-H, --host=HOST address to connect to
-P, --port=PORT port to connect to
--port-file=FILE read port number in FILE
-d, --device=DEVICE query sound on DEVICE.val (default: micro)
-D, --duration=DURATION recording duration in seconds
-o, --output=FILE save sound in FILE (/dev/dsp)
-n, --no-headers do not include the headers when saving the sound
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ urbi-sound -H localhost -D 20 -o sample.wav
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ aplay sample.wav
The microphone device has the following slots:
The microphone object is available using the Gostai Standard Robotics API compliant name robot.body.head.micro or directly typing the shortcut name micro.
// Calculate the microphone refresh rate by counting the number of time the
// microphone value is refreshed during 5 seconds, then dividing this count
// by 5.
var count = 0 |
var lnk = micro.&val.notifyChange(closure (){count++}) |
sleep(5s) |
micro.&val.removeNotifyChange(lnk) |
var refresh_rate = count / 5 |
// Retrieve sound information in the value header
var keys = micro.val.keywords.split(" ") |
// Display all the information
echo("Micro information:");
echo(" format: %s" % keys[0]);
echo(" sample format: %s" % keys[1]);
echo(" rate: %s" % keys[2]);
echo(" sample size: %s" % keys[3]);
echo(" channels: %s" % keys[4]);
echo(" micro.val is refreshed %s times per second" % refresh_rate);
[19281072] *** Micro information:
[19281073] *** format: raw
[19281074] *** sample format: 1
[19281076] *** rate: 16000
[19281077] *** sample size: 16
[19281080] *** channels: 1
[19281086] *** micro.val is refreshed 25 times per second
// Let's record 5 seconds of the micro sound:
// - create the file where we'll save the sound, and open it in an output stream
var o = OutputStream.new(File.create("/tmp/sound.pcm"));
// - every time the micro value change, append the sound chunk to the file
var lnk = micro.&val.notifyChange(closure() { o << micro.val.data ; });
// - stop recording
// - close the output stream
// Now you can play the recorded sound with the shell command:
// aplay -f S16_LE -r 16000 -c 1 -t raw /tmp/sound.pcm
Network object provides methods and attributes to configure and get the current state of the WiFi.
To connect your Jazz robot to your LAN, use the web interface as describe in the Jazz User Manual. It is also possible to specify the network on which Jazz connects. However be careful, Jazz save the network information you provide, and will reuse them for all its future connections. To connect to a WiFi network with ESSID myNetwork and key myHiddenKey.
// Tell network to connect with current parameters and save them.
You can also provide a static IP. Let say we want IP 192.168.0.3, net-mask 255.255.255.0, DNS and gateway 192.168.0.1. Using do to factor network:
do (network)
// Tell network to connect with current parameters and save them.
To reset the robot in ad-hoc mode:
Jazz can play mp3 files with its speaker. The files must be available on Jazz filesystem, or hosted on a web server.
Jazz integrate text to speech. It must be connected to Internet to use text to speech). Only french language is currently supported.
For Jazz to say the sentence: "Bonjour, je suis Jazz le robot", run:
Note: the function can fail in case Jazz network connection timeout.
You have access to Jazz video camera device: you can request the raw images, and process them using urbiscript/UObject.
To quickly visualize your robot video camera stream from your computer, you can use Gostai Lab or the command line tool urbi-image (Section 21.4).
urbi-image opens a graphic windows rendering the live stream from the video camera. Its usage is:
$ urbi-image -h
usage: urbi-image [options]
Display images from an urbi server, or save one image if -o is given
-h, --help display this message and exit successfully
--version display version information
-H, --host=HOST address to connect to
-P, --port=PORT port to connect to
--port-file=FILE read port number in FILE
-p, --period=PERIOD query images at given period (in milliseconds)
-F, --format=FORMAT select format of the image (rgb, ycrcb, jpeg, ppm)
-r, --reconstruct use reconstruct mode (for aibo)
-j, --jpeg=FACTOR jpeg compression factor (from 0 to 100, def 70)
-d, --device=DEVICE query image on DEVICE.val (default: camera)
-o, --output=FILE query and save one image to FILE
-R, --resolution=RESOLUTION select resolution of the image (0=biggest)
-s, --scale=FACTOR rescale image with given FACTOR (display only)
transfer Format : jpeg=transfer jpeg, raw=transfer raw
save Format : rgb , ycrcb, jpeg, ppm
$ urbi-image -H A1111FRPA001001
To visualize the stream with Gostai Lab, connect Gostai Lab to your robot, and enter camera.val in the variable field. The live stream of the video camera will automatically get displayed.
The camera device is represented by the urbiscript object whose slots are:
The camera object is available using the Gostai Standard Robotics API compliant name robot.body.head.camera or directly typing the shortcut name camera.
Here some urbiscript example code manipulating the camera object:
echo("Acquired image size: %sx%s" % [camera.width, camera.height]);
[00237095] *** Acquired image size: 320x240
var e = watch(camera.val);
var t = Timeout.new(5s);
var count = 0 |
t:at(e?) count++ &
t:every(1s) {
echo("camera.val was refreshed %s times" % count);
count = 0;
catch (var e)
echo("timed out");
[00238639] Event_0xffffffffb4dc3728
[00238641] Timeout_0xffffffffb4dd8928
[00238643] *** camera.val was refreshed 0 times
[00239647] *** camera.val was refreshed 14 times
[00240647] *** camera.val was refreshed 15 times
[00241647] *** camera.val was refreshed 15 times
[00242647] *** camera.val was refreshed 15 times
[00243647] *** camera.val was refreshed 15 times
[00243650] *** timed out
If you want to process the video camera raw image data, you can only do it from C++ or Java, using the UObject component API.
#include <urbi/uobject.hh>
// ProcessCamera is an UObject that does video processing with the
// camera stream.
class ProcessCamera : public urbi::UObject
ProcessCamera(const std::string& s)
: urbi::UObject(s)
UNotifyChange("camera.val", &ProcessCamera::process);
// Each time camera.val urbiscript variable is refreshed, your
// function will get called with the new video camera image.
void process(urbi::UVar& val)
urbi::UImage i = val;
// Do processing. See Urbi SDK documentation to know more about UImage.
We provide high level API to move Jazz.
The following slots of the robot object control the movement.
var watchdogGoTag = Tag.new|;
function goDuring(duration, speed)
watchdogGoTag.stop |
robot.xSpeed = speed;
goDuring(2s, 1);
The Open Jazz does not provide yet any Urbi API to manage the display. However you can launch GNU/Linux graphical commands which will use the display. An X server (Xorg see http://www.x.org/wiki/) is installed in Jazz to manage the display.
You can launch any GNU/Linux application from urbiscript by using the Process object. You can try to launch the xeyes application to test the display. To do so, connect to the Urbi runtime and create an xeyes process, then run it.
var p = Process.new("xeyes", ["-geometry", "800x500"]);
[00059674] Process xeyes
// Two eyes get displayed on the screen.
// The two eyes disappeared.
All GNU/Linux graphical application can be launched in the same way. You can also display images using the display command. First upload some image to Jazz filesystem using scp.
then display the image from urbiscript:
var p = Process.new("display",
["-geometry", "800x480+-1+24", "/home/gostai/myimage.jpg"]);
[00897748] Process display
You can also launch graphical commands directly from shell session, but you must first set the DISPLAY environment variable as follow:
Jazz robot includes 8 sonars sensors. are located in front of the robot with a constant spacing in order to detect any obstacle. One is located in the torso of the robot to detect desk and the last one is located in the back of the robot. You can access those sensors using an array containing every values with this order: [left1, left2, left3, torso, right3, right2, right1, back]
[00030042] [4.45448, 4.87494, 2.4531, 5.31701, 2.4292, 1.61747, 1.15333, 0.133563]
* Stop the robot when sonar sensor values are less than 45 centimeters.
at (watch (robot.body.sonars.val)?)
var i = 0;
for (var d in robot.body.sonars.val)
if (i <= 6 && d <= 0.45)
The robot includes 4 IR sensors designed specifically to detect desk and stairs that it have to avoid. Two of them are pointing to the ground so when the distance grow you should be able to know there is a hole in front of the robot. And the last two are pointing to the sky so when their value become short you can assume that there is an obstacle in front (like a chair or a desk that sometimes are too close to be detected with the sonars).
You can access an array containing the 4 sensors' values in this order: [upLeft, upRight, floorLeft, floorRight].
* stop the robot when IR sensors value are above (or under) 1 meter
at (watch (robot.body.irs.val)?)
var i = 0;
for (var d in robot.body.irs.val)
if (i <= 1 && d >= 1
|| i >= 1 && d <= 1)
Jazz has an Hokuyo laser (not available in all version of Open Jazz) accessible with "robot.body.laser".
The AlsaMicrophone uobject is a driver UObject that can be used to communicate from urbiscript to the microphone device thanks to the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) library. The AlsaMicrophone prototype has only one slot available:
Using new you create child instances of AlsaMicrophone. These new prototypes have the following slots:
The AlsaSpeaker uobject is a driver UObject that can be used to communicate from urbiscript to the speaker device thanks to the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) library. The AlsaSpeaker prototype has only one slot available:
Using new you create child instances of AlsaSpeaker. These new prototypes have the following slots:
This UObject remove the sound signal played by the speaker, from the sound signal captured by the microphone. The EchoCanceller prototype has only one slot available:
Using new you create child instances of EchoCanceller. These new prototypes have the following slots:
An interface describes some aspects of a type of device, by specifying the slots and methods that implementations must provide. Each child node of the component hierarchy should implement at least one interface.
In short, interfaces are standard Urbi objects that components can inherit from to declare that they have some functionalities.
The following pages describe interfaces defined for Jazz and used by some of Jazz objects.
Interface for Automatic Gain Control (AGC) algorithm.
Interface for Denoiser (remove noise from a sound signal) algorithm.
The version of Jazz software which is installed on your robot is displayed when you connect to your robot using netcat, Gostai Console or Gostai Lab.
$ rlwrap nc A1111FRPA001001 54000
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
[00732235] *** Jazz version 2.10.2 rev. a2aa56e
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Urbi SDK version 2.7.2 rev. 7a6a48f
[00732235] *** Copyright (C) 2004-2011 Gostai S.A.S.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. It can
[00732235] *** be used under certain conditions. Type 'license;',
[00732235] *** 'authors;', or 'copyright;' for more information.
[00732235] ***
[00732235] *** Check our community site: http://www.urbiforge.org.
[00732235] *** ********************************************************
Here we see that Jazz version is '2.10.2 rev. a2aa56e' and Urbi SDK version is '2.7.2 rev. 7a6a48f'.
There are several scripts available to view Jazz logs: tail-outlog.sh and tail-errlog.sh allow you to monitor in live the error and output log streams, and less-outlog.sh and less-errlog.sh allow you to display and navigate through the complete error and output logs. To quit tail-*log.sh you should send a terminate signal, by pressing Ctrl+c (or Ctrl+break on certain systems). To quit less-*log.sh simply press the q key.
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ tail-errlog.sh
Wed 2011-05-25 14:28:45 CEST [ Jazz.parseopt ] profile 'teleop-rev03' loaded
Wed 2011-05-25 14:28:45 CEST [ Jazz.real_devices.adl ] Loading...
Wed 2011-05-25 14:28:45 CEST [ Jazz.real_devices.adl ] ADL start
Wed 2011-05-25 14:28:45 CEST [ Jazz.real_devices.adl ] Loaded...
Wed 2011-05-25 14:28:45 CEST [Jazz.real_devices.shared-camera] Loading...
To get some info on the urbiscript executing in the Urbi runtime you can use System.stats (display the cycle execution stats) and System.ps (list the urbiscript jobs).
// Display the cycle stats (recorded on a 10s time frame)
[00198274] ["cyclesStdDev" => 0.00219118, "cyclesVariance" => 4801.27,
"cyclesMean" => 0.00163504, "cyclesMax" => 0.014414, "cyclesMin" => 0.000171,
"cycles" => 2110]
// Display current urbiscript jobs
[00215160] *** Job: shell
[00215160] *** State: idle (frozen) (side effect free)
[00215160] *** Time Shift: 0.026387ms
[00215160] *** Tags:
[00215160] *** Tag<Lobby_216>
[00215160] *** Job: event_224
[00215160] *** State: waiting
[00215160] *** Tags:
[00215160] *** Tag<Lobby_98>
[00215160] *** Tag<tag_104>
[00215160] *** Tag<tag_102>
[00215160] *** Tag<tag_152>
[00215160] *** Backtrace:
[00215160] *** rewrite/desugarer.cc:324.6-23: sleep
[00215160] *** /jazz/share/jazz/services/urbi/fsm.u:289.15-22: emitDone
[00215160] *** /jazz/share/jazz/services/urbi/fsm.u:476.16-31: enter
[00215160] *** /usr/local/stow/urbi-sdk/share/gostai/urbi/control.u:18.5-26: spawn
[00215160] *** /jazz/share/jazz/services/urbi/fsm.u:476.16-31: detach
[00215160] *** /jazz/share/jazz/services/urbi/fsm.u:436.11-52: applyTransition
[00215160] *** /jazz/share/jazz/services/urbi/fsm.u:234.13-37: transit
There is a statistic gathering tool available from urbiscript. Enable it with uobjects.enableStats. Reset counters by calling uobjects.clearStats. uobjects.getStats returns a Dictionary of all bound C++ functions called, including timer callbacks, along with the average, min, max call durations, and the number of calls.
// In this example, we display the execution time of UObjects
// components in a 10 second time frame.
function displayStats()
var sorted = getStats.asList.sort(function(obj1, obj2) {
obj1[1][0]*obj1[1][3] < obj2[1][0]*obj2[1][3]
echo("Exec time (avg, min, max) (ms) | #calls | UObject name");
for (var obj : sorted)
echo("%4s, %4s, %5s | %3s | %s" % (obj[1] + [obj[0]]));
[00895231] *** Exec time (avg, min, max) (ms) | #calls | UObject name
[00895236] *** 106, 102, 115 | 10 | uob_0xb783b5d8.load --> uob_0xb783b5d8
[00895238] *** 41, 24, 358 | 150 | VideoIn_0xb70ba2b8.valJPEG --> uob_0xb7141328
[00895240] *** 230, 197, 423 | 40 | ifconfig_0xb70972e8 update
[00895243] *** 26, 25, 236 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8.sharp2 --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895245] *** 26, 25, 95 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8.sharp1 --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895247] *** 248, 229, 318 | 40 | Iwconfig_0xb7827278 update
[00895249] *** 27, 25, 65 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8.sharp3 --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895252] *** 34, 29, 276 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8.sharp0 --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895254] *** 104, 16, 11699 | 380 | uob_0xb70f2628.speedAlpha --> uob_0xb70f2628
[00895264] *** 455, 412, 736 | 390 | uob_0xb7199408.inputSpeedAlpha --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895266] *** 503, 456, 745 | 390 | uob_0xb7199408.inputSpeedDelta --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895268] *** 1067, 30, 10795 | 380 | uob_0xb70f2628.speedDelta --> uob_0xb70f2628
[00895271] *** 1406, 249, 12163 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8.sonars --> uob_0xb7199408
[00895272] *** 2812, 1557, 13606 | 380 | uob_0xb78548d8
With this information you can check whether your UObjects take too long to execute.
The Linux kernel is able to generate core dumps when a program crashes. These core-dump files can then be given to gdb to debug the program. To enable core dumps in the Linux kernel, ssh on the robot and do:
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ sudo ulimit -c unlimited
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ ulimit -c unlimited
gostai@A1111FRPA001001:∼$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid
Log in with ssh and use top or htop to view Jazz load. If your robot is overloaded the Urbi runtime cannot guarantee a normal behavior.
Log in with ssh and use 'df -h'. It displays the amount of memory used and available (look at the '/dev/sda1' line).
If you edit files directly on the robot (using ssh), the filesystem cannot guarantee that your changes will be effectively written to memory if you shutdown the robot with the on/off power button just after having made your changes. If you need to stop or restart your robot, either:
ROS (Robot Operating System) is a set of tools and libraries designed to provide a common framework for robotic application developers. There are already thousands of compatible applications available in various domains such as computer vision, navigation, visualization tools...
Jazz comes with complete ROS compatibility. The currently used ROS version is 'electric'. A subset of the ROS distribution is installed in the /opt/ros directory of the Jazz hard drive.
ROS support in Jazz is implemented as a Jazz service and is disabled by default. Refer to section Section 29.1.10 for instructions on how to enable and disable services.
By default, a ROS master is started on the robot when the service is enabled. You can specify a different ROS master by setting the config.ros.master_uri configuration variable:
config.ros.master_uri = "http://my_computer:11311";
// Call _save to make the change persistent.
The Jazz ROS service maps each device of the robot to a ROS Topic with similar name. The following table lists the most important topics:
|Urbi name
|ROS topic
|ROS message type
The sonar array and the laser if present are accessible as standard LaserScan data. Robot odometry is available as either nav_msgs/Odometry messages in the /robot_out topic or standard tf transforms on the /tf topic.
All sensor messages with a header are given in the base_footprint frame. tf messages from the odometry are published on the standard /tf topic, performing the /base_footprint -> /odom transform.
Head yaw and pitch are mapped to two different topics, since they have a sensor part and an actuator part.
If your Jazz is equipped with a laser scanner, Jazz is compatible with the ROS navigation stack.
Navigation components can run on the Jazz CPU, or as remote components.
It is recommended to run them remotely, especially if you plan to use the web control interface at the same time to avoid overloading the Jazz CPU.
The gmapping module can be used to create a map of your environment.
Make sure you are using the same ros-master as your Jazz. If you type rostopic list you should see all the topics advertised by the robot.
Then run:
This will start gmapping. gmapping then processes odometry and laser scan data to create a map of the environment as the robot moves.
Using the joystick (preferred) or the web interface, navigate the robot around your environment. You should avoid fast rotations as it puts too much stress on the SLAM process.
When you are done, extract the map using:
This will create the file map.pgm containing your map data.
You should then open the map in an image editor and crop it to remove the empty space. This will reduce CPU requirements for the localization task.
You will find on the robot a ROS package named jazz_navigation under JAZZ_ROOT/share/vigilant/ros that contains a reasonable default configuration for the navigation.
You can copy the whole directory to an external computer (recommended) or run it on the robot:
# Copy the parameter files (replace myJazzName with the host name of your Jazz)
scp -r myJazzName:/usr/local/stow/vigilant/share/vigilant/ros jazz-ros
# Make the package visible to ros
export ROS_PACKAGE_PACK=$PWD/jazz-ros:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH
# Run the navigation package
roslaunch jazz_navigation move_base.launch
See the ROS navigation tutorial for information about the various configuration files.
You can visualize sensor data and set navigation goals using the ROS rviz tool:
Then load the jazz_navigation/nav.vcg layout file in rviz, which contains the proper rviz configuration for Jazz.
Jazz does not move when setting a navigation Goal If Jazz is docked on its charging station, move commands are disabled. You must remove Jazz from its charging station manually.


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