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Hi Again

As said in the previous message, it should be pretty easy to use a c# 
Assembly via COM from C++:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12673/Calling-Managed-NET-C-COM-Objects-from-Unmanaged-C

Best regards

Bernhard

Hi Henry

> In short my plan has been to produce my project in C# (a language I'm
> more comfortable in than C++) and use COM to provide a bridge between
> the two languages. I've developed a bridge class for C++ which does
> successfully gets the basic bits of info I need across and everything
> operates fine. The bit I've come slightly unstuck with (and would really
> appreciate help with) is linking my bridge class into the berniw
> tutorial robot. (Or any other suitable robot!)

Ok, if I get it right it you just need to call you custom COM stuff from 
the robot. Depending on your requirements you have to decide somewhere 
between these 2 extreme cases:
1. The c++ robot acts only as "COM bridge" and all decisions are made in C#.
2. The robot is fully in C++ and just calls you specific learning 
algorithms via COM.

1 requires some work to bring all data you need through the COM 
interface, there you have to decide up to what level this is beneficial 
(tradeoff, as usual...).

2 should be very easy, but it might not fit your requirements (e.g. if 
your C# robot should be general and requires a clean interface/own 
datastructures to plug it into other simulations, so you need to map the 
data anyway).

A comment to the COM interface: COM is not portable, maybe a TCP/UDP 
approach might be better (e.g. see this: 
http://cig.ws.dei.polimi.it/?page_id=134 and 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cig/ and 
http://games.ws.dei.polimi.it/competitions/scr/.

Beware, there could be another easy way (I did this in the past):
- Compile your robot as "Managed C++ assembly", because it is a DLL and 
the interface to TORCS stays "as is" it does not matter for TORCS. Then 
you can access your C# assemblies more or less without a fuss, IIRC.

To the technical stuff (to the COM idea):
- I would recommend you to compile TORCS with VS2008, it should be easy 
to link you C++ robot to COM (I did something similar years ago in a 
commercial software project, IIRC it is pretty easy, so just use Google 
and MSDN documentation).

> What I need to be able to do is to access the robot's steering angle,
> the velocity, the position along the track (in a single dimensional
> length if possible?) and the car's lap time. I would also need to access
> and modify the robot's brake and acceleration levels and the damage

This is all easy to find, just sneak into the robot tutorial, steering 
angle/velocity is chapter 1 I guess, the position along the track is 
car->_distFromStartLine (see also 
src/libs/raceengineclient/raceengine.cpp, around line 344 in TORCS 1.3.3).

> meter for the car. (My project is looking into whether Reinforcement
> Learning Methods would allow the car to adjust to wearing brakes, I'm
> using the damage to keep track of the brake wear.)

If you want to implement brake wear you should do it in the simulation 
engine (see src/modules/simu/simuv2). You should then add new fields to 
the car structures to keep track of it.

> It might also be useful to know when the lap ends (however if I know how
> far along the lap the car is, and the length of the track I can work
> that out from those two bits of data).

As above, sneak into src/libs/raceengineclient/raceengine.cpp.

You should as well have a look into the FAQ here:
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=30#c6_1, 
6.7 and 6.8 might be interesting for you.

> Thanks in advance,
> Henry

You are welcome, let us know if this helped and how you solved it 
finally such that others can learn from it.

Best regards

Bernhard

Hi,
I've been working on an AI/Reinforcement learning project for my dissertation, based loosely around torcs, but relatively independent. I now need to link the two together, I've been operating around the berniw robot tutorial as a guide.
In short my plan has been to produce my project in C# (a language I'm more comfortable in than C++) and use COM to provide a bridge between the two languages. I've developed a bridge class for C++ which does successfully gets the basic bits of info I need across and everything operates fine. The bit I've come slightly unstuck with (and would really appreciate help with) is linking my bridge class into the berniw tutorial robot. (Or any other suitable robot!)

What I need to be able to do is to access the robot's steering angle, the velocity, the position along the track (in a single dimensional length if possible?) and the car's lap time. I would also need to access and modify the robot's brake and acceleration levels and the damage meter for the car. (My project is looking into whether Reinforcement Learning Methods would allow the car to adjust to wearing brakes, I'm using the damage to keep track of the brake wear.) It might also be useful to know when the lap ends (however if I know how far along the lap the car is, and the length of the track I can work that out from those two bits of data). Thanks in advance,
Henry 		 	   		  

Managed to fix the problem on my own, turns out I'd forgotten to change the project build type to 'Release' :)
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To: tor...@li...
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:25:42 +0000
Subject: [Torcs-users] Trouble compiling Torcs 1.3.3 (Windows 'all-in-one'	package)








Hi everyone,
I've had trouble getting the 'all-in-one' source package to install correctly, I followed the steps as outlined on the torcs page (http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=3#linux-src-all-win) and I've got a lot of compile errors.
I've attached the VS8 output from the build, and if anyone would like more information, I'll happily send them the build-logs as well.
Thanks in advance,
Henry
 		 	   		  

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Hi Tennessee

> Wow, sorry for the non-reply. I appreciate your response. I have ended

No problem, often people have to be patient with me too (because this is 
not business, I enjoy answering when I am in the mood).

> up using version 1.3.1 instead of 1.3.3. This is to be compatible with
> the simulated racing car championship codebase, and this is working well
> for me. Someone else on the net has posted a Python client for this, so
> I'm now up and running (although not up with the latest core codebase).
>
> I may try to get 1.3.3 running and I'll use your advice at that point,
> but right now I'm happy :)

Great:-)

Best regards

Bernhard

>
> Thanks again for the reply.
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Bernhard Wymann <be...@bl...
> <mailto:be...@bl...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Tennessee
>
>     I guess you forgot to set up the environment (of course you need to
>     adjust the paths):
>
>     export TORCS_BASE=/usr/src/torcs/__torcs-1.2.4
>     export MAKE_DEFAULT=$TORCS_BASE/Make-__default.mk <http://default.mk>
>
>     See also http://www.berniw.org/torcs/__install/torcs-setup.html
>     <http://www.berniw.org/torcs/install/torcs-setup.html>
>
>     Beware, the robot generated by robotgen will need a few adjustments,
>     because the script is not up to date (I did not check it for a long
>     time, I guess some char* must be now const char* but the compiler
>     will tell you).
>
>     Best regards
>
>     Bernhard
>
>
>
>     On 04/06/2012 12:21 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
>         it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.
>
>         I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
>         myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
>         downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I
>         did need
>         to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
>         but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
>         (/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but
>         that is
>         no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.
>
>         I tried to work through the tutorial found at
>         http://www.berniw.org/.
>         I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
>         sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
>         directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
>         schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from
>         that
>         directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
>         Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
>         top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
>         work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that
>         directory.
>         So I ran make install to finish things off.
>
>         However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the
>         list
>         under "configure race".
>
>         Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that
>         I can
>         check to try and resolve the issue?
>
>         Thanks,
>         -Tennessee
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> Tennessee Leeuwenburg
> http://myownhat.blogspot.com/
> "Don't believe everything you think"

Wow, sorry for the non-reply. I appreciate your response. I have ended up
using version 1.3.1 instead of 1.3.3. This is to be compatible with the
simulated racing car championship codebase, and this is working well for
me. Someone else on the net has posted a Python client for this, so I'm now
up and running (although not up with the latest core codebase).

I may try to get 1.3.3 running and I'll use your advice at that point, but
right now I'm happy :)

Thanks again for the reply.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Bernhard Wymann <be...@bl...> wrote:

> Hi Tennessee
>
> I guess you forgot to set up the environment (of course you need to adjust
> the paths):
>
> export TORCS_BASE=/usr/src/torcs/**torcs-1.2.4
> export MAKE_DEFAULT=$TORCS_BASE/Make-**default.mk
>
> See also http://www.berniw.org/torcs/**install/torcs-setup.html<http://www.berniw.org/torcs/install/torcs-setup.html>
>
> Beware, the robot generated by robotgen will need a few adjustments,
> because the script is not up to date (I did not check it for a long time, I
> guess some char* must be now const char* but the compiler will tell you).
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>
>
> On 04/06/2012 12:21 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
>> it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.
>>
>> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
>> myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
>> downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I did need
>> to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
>> but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
>> (/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but that is
>> no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.
>>
>> I tried to work through the tutorial found at http://www.berniw.org/.
>> I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
>> sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
>> directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
>> schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from that
>> directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
>> Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
>> top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
>> work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that directory.
>> So I ran make install to finish things off.
>>
>> However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the list
>> under "configure race".
>>
>> Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that I can
>> check to try and resolve the issue?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Tennessee
>>
>>
>


-- 
--------------------------------------------------
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
http://myownhat.blogspot.com/
"Don't believe everything you think"

Hi Amogh

Never seen this before, from where did you get the source, did you apply 
a patch which does disabling the expat included into TORCS?

Is /usr/local/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Maybe this helps:
http://www.berniw.org/torcs/install/torcs-setup.html

Best regards

Bernhard

On 04/05/2012 07:44 PM, Amogh Akshintala wrote:
> Hey,
> I have checked this against torcs 1.3.2, 1.3.3 and the current trunk and
> all give me the same error when I try to run it for the first time after
> compilationg:
>
>     /usr/local/lib/torcs/torcs-bin: symbol lookup error:
>     /usr/local/lib/torcs/lib/libtgf.so: undefined symbol: XML_ParserCreate
>
> I don't understand what is causing this error. Could someone please have
> a look at it. Wierd thing is that I haven't found this error listed by
> anyone else on the internet.
>
> Thanks,
> Amogh Akshintala
>
>
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Hi Tennessee

I guess you forgot to set up the environment (of course you need to 
adjust the paths):

export TORCS_BASE=/usr/src/torcs/torcs-1.2.4
export MAKE_DEFAULT=$TORCS_BASE/Make-default.mk

See also http://www.berniw.org/torcs/install/torcs-setup.html

Beware, the robot generated by robotgen will need a few adjustments, 
because the script is not up to date (I did not check it for a long 
time, I guess some char* must be now const char* but the compiler will 
tell you).

Best regards

Bernhard


On 04/06/2012 12:21 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
> it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
> myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
> downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I did need
> to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
> but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
> (/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but that is
> no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.
>
> I tried to work through the tutorial found at http://www.berniw.org/.
> I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
> sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
> directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
> schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from that
> directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
> Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
> top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
> work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that directory.
> So I ran make install to finish things off.
>
> However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the list
> under "configure race".
>
> Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that I can
> check to try and resolve the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> -Tennessee
>

Hi all,

I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I did need
to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
(/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but that is
no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.

I tried to work through the tutorial found at http://www.berniw.org/.
I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from that
directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that directory.
So I ran make install to finish things off.

However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the list
under "configure race".

Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that I can
check to try and resolve the issue?

Thanks,
-Tennessee

-- 
--------------------------------------------------
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
http://myownhat.blogspot.com/
"Don't believe everything you think"

Hey,
I have checked this against torcs 1.3.2, 1.3.3 and the current trunk and
all give me the same error when I try to run it for the first time after
compilationg:

> /usr/local/lib/torcs/torcs-bin: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/local/lib/torcs/lib/libtgf.so: undefined symbol: XML_ParserCreate

I don't understand what is causing this error. Could someone please have a
look at it. Wierd thing is that I haven't found this error listed by anyone
else on the internet.

Thanks,
Amogh Akshintala


-- 
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become
legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age
that gave it birth returns again.

On 05/04/12 04:33, nabaraj dahal wrote:
> Hi torcs-users,
>
> I am a novice user of this software.
> I was attracted to this software because it might me useful for me for
> my experimental setup for my research purpose.
> I need to track the behavior of driving like pressing of brake and gas
> pedal by exporting the marker to the next computer  in real time through
> serial port. The marker can be any data like digits 1 ,2 etc that would
> indicate the precise timing of application of brake or gas pedal.
> Will someone suggest me whether it is feasible to do such thing in this
> software.
> If yes, will some one please advice me the way of doing it.
>
> Regard,
> Nabaraj Dahal
> University of South Australia.
>
>

Hi,

I think I can see where you're going with this and it's something I've 
wanted to do for years but never got to the top of my priority list.

You probably want to output the time and an identifier for the event ( 
and likely some other supplementary data like direction/magnitude in 
some cases).

Fairly obviously, you just hack into the code where it starts 
calculating the response to the brake pedal event , output your line of 
data, and continue.

 > I am a novice user of this software.
Are you also a novice programmer? Unless I'm misunderstanding your 
question it seems a bit obvious. Maybe you could specify better what you 
are wanting to do and why you are stuck.

You could write  this to a file or a pipe, the file could /dev/ttyS0 
(assuming linux/unix system, you don't specify). Writing timing data as 
well would mean you don't need to be hard real time (which may not be 
reactive enough) , you could even process it later depending upon 
exactly what you're doing.

If you can better explain what you are aiming to do , without giving 
away any secrets, it may help to give better advice.

best regards.

Hi torcs-users,

I am a novice user of this software.
I was attracted to this software because it might me useful for me for my
experimental setup for my research purpose.
I need to track the behavior of driving like pressing of brake and gas
pedal by exporting the marker to the next computer  in real time through
serial port. The marker can be any data like digits 1 ,2 etc that would
indicate the precise timing of application of brake or gas pedal.
Will someone suggest me whether it is feasible to do such thing in this
software.
If yes, will some one please advice me the way of doing it.

Regard,
Nabaraj Dahal
University of South Australia.

Hi editted my track in Blender. But the thing is when I save it as an .ac
file format and try to open it in torcs it isn't opening. Do I need to
convert it to an ac.3 format? Please let me know.
Bharath K Venkat
Graduate Student/Graduate Research Assistant
Engineering Research lab (ERL 311)
Mechanical Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology