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ROS Implemenation of Buzz
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What is Buzz?
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Buzz is a novel programming language for heterogeneous robots swarms.
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Buzz advocates a compositional approach, by offering primitives to define swarm behaviors both in a bottom-up and in a top-down fashion.
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Bottom-up primitives include robot-wise commands and manipulation of neighborhood data through mapping/reducing/filtering operations.
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Top-down primitives allow for the dynamic management of robot teams, and for sharing information globally across the swarm.
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Self-organization results from the fact that the Buzz run-time platform is purely distributed.
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The language can be extended to add new primitives (thus supporting heterogeneous robot swarms) and can be laid on top of other frameworks, such as ROS.
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More information is available at http://the.swarming.buzz/wiki/doku.php?id=start.
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Description:
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Rosbuzz package is the ROS version of Buzz. The package contains a node called “rosbuzz_node”, which implements buzz virtual machine (BVM) as a node in ROS.
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Downloading ROS Package
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$ git clone https://github.com/MISTLab/ROSBuzz.git rosbuzz
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Requirements
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* Buzz :
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You can download the development sources through git:
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$ git clone https://github.com/MISTLab/Buzz.git buzz
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* ROS binary distribution (Indigo or higher) with catkin (could be used with older versions of ROS with catkin but not tested)
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You need the following package:
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* mavros_msgs :
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You can install using apt-get:
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$ sudo apt-get install ros-<distro>-mavros ros-<distro>-mavros-extras
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Compilation
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To compile the ros package, execute the following:
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$ cd catkin_ws
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$ catkin_make
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$ source devel/setup.bash
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Run
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To run the ROSBuzz package using the launch file, execute the following:
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$ roslaunch rosbuzz rosbuzz.launch
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Note : Before launching the ROSBuzz node, verify all the parameters in the launch file. A launch file using gdb is available also (rosbuzzd.launch).
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* Buzz scripts: Several behavioral scripts are included in the "buzz_Scripts" folder, such as "graphformGPS.bzz" uses in the ICRA publication below and the "testaloneWP.bzz" to control a single drone with a ".csv" list of waypoints. The script "empty.bzz" is a template script.
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Publisher
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* Messages from Buzz (BVM):
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The package publishes mavros_msgs/Mavlink message "outMavlink".
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* Command to the flight controller:
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The package publishes geometry_msgs/PoseStamped message "setpoint_position/local".
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Subscribers
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* Current position of the Robot:
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The package subscribes to sensor_msgs/NavSatFix message "global_position/global", to a std_msgs/Float64 message "global_position/rel_alt" and to a geometry_msgs/PoseStamped message "local_position/pose".
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* Messages to Buzz (BVM):
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The package subscribes to mavros_msgs/Mavlink message with a topic name of "inMavlink".
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* Status:
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The package subscribes to mavros_msgs/BatteryStatus message "battery" and to either a mavros_msgs/ExtendedState message "extended_state" or a mavros_msgs/State message "state".
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Service
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* Remote Controller:
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The package offers a mavros_msgs/CommandLong service "buzzcmd" to control its state. In the "misc" folder a bash script shows how to control the Buzz states from the command line.
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References
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* ROS and Buzz : consensus-based behaviors for heterogeneous teams. Submitted to the Internaional Conference on Robotics and Automation (September 2017). 6pgs. St-Onge, D., Shankar Varadharajan, V., Li, G., Svogor, I. and Beltrame, G. arXiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08843
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* Over-The-Air Updates for Robotic Swarms. Submitted to IEEE Software (August 2017). 8pgs. Shankar Varadharajan, V., St-Onge, D., Guß, C. and Beltrame, G.
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Visual Studio Code
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To activate highlights of the code in Visual Studio Code or Roboware add the following to settings.json:
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```
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"files.associations": {
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"*.bzz":"python"
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}
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``` |