ChaMeleons/OWL 2001 Binaries
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/sim/2001/home.html

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Introduction

This are the ChaMeleons/OWL binaries which were used at RoboCup2001
(see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robocup2001). They are intended to be used
with the SoccerServer system (see
http://sserver.sourceforge.net). They were compiled on a Linux RH6.2
system. If you need binaries for another linux system, we may be able
to oblige you. Please send us email (see the addresses below).

Please read the License file for the use of these binaries.

These binaries use the libscoach library, which is released under the
GNU LGPL (see License_libscoach). 

Selected file/directory description:

* License_libscoach: The License for the libscoach library. The
  libscoach library can be downloaded from
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/sim/libscoach/
* License: the (much-shorter) license for these binaries.
* player: the binary for the player
* coach: the binary for the coach
* Formations/, Plans/, Rules/: directories containing data files used
  by the coach.
* Logfiles/: This is where the players and coach would ordinarily
  place their logfiles, but this is turned off in the configuration
  files given here.
* conf/: a directory containing the configuration files for the coach
  for the different situations (described below)
* start, start_player: simple start scripts for the team.
* *.conf: configuration files for the players and coach. I do not
  recommend changing these, as the effects will probably be somewhat
  mysterious.

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How to use these binaries

The easiest thing to do is to just use './start <hostname>' to start
the players and coach. However, the execution line of the coach
changed throughout the competition. If you would like to run the coach
as it did for various phases of the competition, first run
'./start_players <hostname>' to start the players, then use one of the
following command lines.

Coach as it ran in the first round robin:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf

Coach as it ran in the second round robin:
* against arvand:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/RR1/arvand.conf
* against essex:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/RR1/essex.conf
* against sbce:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/RR1/sbce.conf
* against tsinghuaeolus:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/RR1/tsinghuaeolus.conf
* against yowai:
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/RR1/yowai.conf

Coach as it ran for the coach competition:
* coaching DirtyDozen: 
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/coach/dirtydozen.conf
* coaching Respina2001: 
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/coach/respina2001.conf
* coaching WrightEagle: 
 coach -file server.conf -file coach.conf -file share.conf -file conf/RC2001/coach/wrighteagle.conf


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A few important caveats

* The coach binary dynamically loads libMagick++.so.5.0.33. You may
  need to install ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) and/or set
  your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to allow the coach to load this library.

* Our players and coach are too computation intensive to run at full
  speed on the same machine (at least on our 500-1000MHz PCs). Our
  players do understand the slow_down_factor of the server, or you can
  distribute the players to multiple machines. It is normal to see a
  few errors of the form:
  PLAYER ERROR (player 8, time 2.0): Only 2 interrupts last cycle
  PLAYER ERROR (player 1, time 15.0): Missed a cycle??
  but if you see lots of them, the players need more computation time.


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Contact Paul Carpenter <carpep@cs.cmu.edu> if you have questions about
the players, and contact Patrick Riley <pfr@cs.cmu.edu> if you have
questions about the coach (OWL)

Patrick Riley <pfr@cs.cmu.edu>
Paul Carpenter <carpep@cs.cmu.edu>
Gal Kaminka <galk@cs.cmu.edu>
Manuela Veloso <mmv@cs.cmu.edu>
Ignacio Thayer <iet@andrew.cmu.edu>
Robert Wang <rywang@andrew.cmu.edu>
Patrick Markiewicz <pfm2@andrew.cmu.edu>