Modules - Standard v0.1
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This page should contain guidelines for designing new modules for the software architecture. The intention of this is to keep internal coherence and compatability with RoboticsLab robot modules who follow this standard. A list of available modules can be found at the description of modules page.
- Each directory in the trunk folder structure should contains modules that represent the same single block in the control block diagram.
- Interfaces should be the same throughout all the modules in the same directory, to assure interchangability.
- When the module is a hardware interface, it is recommended to create a dummy (fake) module too for debugging purposes of other modules in absence of hardware component or simulator equivalent.
- Each module name should contain (in order, lower-cased, and separated by underscores):
- A three letter prefix that represents the name of the parent directory.
- A description of its implementation.
- Each port should contain:
- The description of the module implementation.
- The short-nomenclature data type identifier.
- Each internal variable related with communication (bottle, int...) should contain:
- The descriptor such as 'bottle', 'int'...
- The short-nomenclature data type identifier.
- The I/O identifier: 'i' for input, 'o' for output, 'io' for input/output.
\** Example **\ Parent Directory: drivers Module: drv_fake Ports: fake_q Internal Parameters: bottle_q_i, bottle_q_o, double_q_i[], double_q_o[]...
Recommended module folder structure
The intention of defining this should be for each project to be self-contained. Each module directory should contain the following structure (full implementation is not necessary):
- extern/
- bin/
- linux-x86/
- win32/
- ...
- include/
- lib/
- linux-x86/
- win32/
- ...
- bin/
- mk/
- msvc9/
- linux-x86/
- ...
- out/
- data/
- win32/
- linux-x86/
- ...
- src/
- AUTHORS
- INSTALL
- install-win32.txt
Notes:
- A project generating shell script has been developed for this purpose.
- extern/ is intended for 3rd party libraries.
- data/ is intended for inclusion of multiplatform (shared) data for execution of the program, such as 3d models, etc...
- out/win32/, out/linux-x86, etc, must contain the platform-specific shared libraries and other complements necesary for the execution of the resulting application or library.