Version 5 of David Andel

All info is on my homepage: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~andel

Well, not really :) Can you tell us a bit about what you are doing with tcl ? (I saw that you do AI work, how is tcl used in that environment, for example ?) -- AK

Sure :-)

When I started ant navigation research at the AI Lab I jumped into a project using extensive software written by Ralf Moeller (and some others) in tcl/tk with C++ extensions. So I've learned to write and to love tcl/tk :-) It consisted of different packages for digitizing ant trajectories from scanned paper documents, statistical analysis thereof, a simulator implementing models of ant landmark navigation, and libraries for steering Samurai robots.

I've adapted the package used for digitizing trajectories from scanned sheets of paper to a package allowing to digitize ant trajectories right in the fieldplace using a notebook with a graphics tablet, powered by solar panels which I weared on my back (see [L1 ]). At some point I'll move the C++ parts to tcl to make a single tcl application out of it.

Additionally I've adapted and improved the statistical package. At the moment I am moving to use the R package out of the tcl scripts for the pure statistics instead of tcl functions.<br> The simulator and the Samurai libs are not further developed. We moved to Koala robots some time ago and are working on a control lib in pure C now.

Not related to my research:

I've looked into WiKit to run my own wiki(s). After quite some testing of WiKit and a number of other wiki packages I've chosen UseMod [L2 ] which I use now with great pleasure. Well, that means I had to go into Perl as well... ;-)
After my medical studies and studying maths now I started to build a very flexible "crammer" without the need to create documents expecially for it, by just using html docs from any source. I plan to release that under the GPL, so if you like the idea plase tell me to join forces :-)

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