Version 7 of David Andel

Updated 2002-04-04 07:11:20

All info is on my homepage: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~andel (e-mail mailto:[email protected] )

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.

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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