SmartSoft

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain

Components and Toolchain for Robotics

Latest News

20/03/2012

New video of SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain

27/02/2012

New video: The butler scenario.

06/10/2011

A new section demonstrates the creation and usage of Gateway components.

09/09/2011

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain 0.10.4 released. Components update released. New Videos available.

05/05/2011

New video of our robot "Kate" cleaning up the table.

29/04/2011

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.8.0 is available on Sourceforge. Technical reports available.

27/04/2011

Switch to Model Driven Software Development for all published SmartSoft components and communication objects. Many new components published. Getting-Startet-Tutorial added. Toolchain 0.10.2 released.

16/09/2010

Description of several components and their services added.

13/08/2010

The ACE based SmartSoft version 1.7.2 is available on Sourceforge. ACE / SmartSoft on Sourceforge

27/07/2010

SIMPAR 2010: Tutorial on "Model-Driven Software Development in Robotics"

26/05/2010

SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain version 0.8.0 released. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

09/09/2009

The new VMWare Image of SmartSoft including the SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain is available for download. SmartSoft VMWare on Sourceforge

Using the VMWare image

While the installation of SmartSoft and the SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain requires an amount of time, the SmartSoft VMware-image is already set up and ready to use. The VMware-image provides an installed SmartSoft version with the necessary environment, basing on Ubuntu LTS 10.04.2

More information on how to install and use the VMWare-image is available on the SmartSoft VMware Image manual page.

Download VMWare-image

Standalone installation

Download and extract our Eclipse based SmartSoft MDSD Toolchain:


$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/smart-robotics/files\
> /SmartSoft_MDSD_Toolchain/0.10.4/eclipse-smartsoft_0.10.4.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf eclipse-smartsoft_0.10.4.tar.gz

Hint: The package "SmartSoft-MDSD-Toolchain_0.10.4_src.tar.gz" contains the sources of our eclipse-plugin, which allow to manually integrate our plugin into existing eclipse installations.

On 32 bit (Ubuntu) Linux you can start the toolchain by executing:


$ cd eclipse-smartsoft_0.10.4
$ ./itemis-oaw-distribution

Hint: On 64 bit Ubuntu the compatibility package ia32-sun-java can be used to run 32 bit java applications:


$ sudo apt-get install ia32-sun-java

# set-up ia32-java as default java version (globally)
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java

# or alternativelly setup ia32-java vm as program argument
$ ./itemis-oaw-distribution -vm /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Now the toolchain can be used to create own components. In order to compile components it is necessary to install CORBA/SmartSoft. This also allows to inspect and modify the PSM model of our SmartSoft components or to create own deployment models (including our components). To import our components into the toolchain, open a workspace and import all projects from folders:

$SMART_ROOT/src/components/
$SMART_ROOT/src/deployments/
$SMART_ROOT/src/interfaceClasses
Optional: $SMART_ROOT/src/example-*

Hint: To import projects in the toolcahin, choose: File->Import; General->Existing Projects into Workspace; after that select the directories (above).