In this thesis, a Zeroth level Classifier System (ZCS) controller is compared to a hand-made controller (which features some simple rules to control the robot). The experiments are done in a world with continuous time and space. Their task is surveillance. The controllers control a LEGO Mindstorms robot with 4 wheels, a touch sensor, a pen device and a camera which can track the pen track. The pen track fades over time, and is used by the controllers to communicate indirectly.The experiments are done in three worlds. Each experiment features three robots with controllers of one type (either ZCS or hand-made). The ZCS controller has been optimized using a meta-evolutionary algorithm, but this did not yield better results than the not-optimized ZCS controller. Overall, the ZCS controller did not perform as good as the hand-made controller.
“LEGO Mindstorms robots with a ZCS controller in a simulated physical world”
April 8th, 2010Add generics (<>) highlighting to jEdit
June 5th, 2009jEdit (www.jedit.org), my favorite editor, has extensive support for highlighting dozens of languages. However, the Java highlighting plug-in does not support generics: it does not highlight the words between ‘< ' and '>‘. Therefore, I edited the highlighting Java file so it supports this feature.
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Import the last revision of your svn into bzr
January 29th, 2009Subversion is a widely used VCS (version control system). However, there a more players out there, like Bazaar (bzr). For example, Ubuntu wans to switch to this VCS in the near future.
I’ve got a svn account on Unfuddle. But bzr also works with ordinary ftp and ssh accounts, and thus I wanted to switch to bzr. But how can I move my files from my svn to bzr?
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Computer not switched off by Ubuntu
January 29th, 2009My laptop runs Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’ 8.10. Sometimes, my laptop does not switch off after pressing the power button or clicking the ‘shutdown’ option. The laptop makes an attempt to close all proceses, but after the Ubuntu splash screen, a blikking cursor remains instead of a dead laptop.
launchpad.net, I read a post from someone with the same problem and I solved it using his instructions:
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Synchronize your Nokia N95 in Ubuntu using USB
November 18th, 2008Synchronizing a Nokia phone with Windows is easy: download PC Suite and that’s all. However, PC Suite does not run on Linux at all (In my case that’s Ubuntu 8.10: Intrepid Ibex) and thus you do not have a tool to synchronize your contacts or calendar with your computer. Or is there?
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Add POIs to Nokia Maps 2.0
October 29th, 2008Nokia has been present on the GPS market for some time, and a half year ago the company launched their own Nokia Maps 2.0: it runs on Nokia mobile phones and, in contrary to other products, you pay for using the program – all maps are free.
If you start Nokia Maps 2.0, there is no option to import landmarks (favorites) into the program. However, I did succeed in loading the POIs!
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Add POIs to Sygic McGuider (also for 7.7!)
October 28th, 2008Using ‘Points of Interest’ (POI) files in Sygic McGuider is not self explanatory. However, using some simple steps you can import your favorite places into McGuider!
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Hello world!
October 28th, 2008Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!