The Tekkotsu source package includes everything you need to run in simulation (Mirage) or on a robot.

• Recommended: Check out of CVS, see the CVS Usage page for more information.

• Release: .tar.gz">Tekkotsu Release (B)

  The 4.0.1 release is quite antique, it is recommended to download from CVS (first option) until we finalize the upcoming 5.1 release.

Installation instructions depend on where you are installing Tekkotsu:

• Workstations
• Ubuntu Linux - for developer workstations or Hand-Eye control; for linux-based mobile robots see specialized instructions below
• Mac OS X - provides development and simulation capabilities, or direct control of a Hand-Eye. Try using a virtual machine such as the free VirtualBox with Ubuntu for robot cross-compilation
• Robots
• Chiara - instructions for setting up a Chiara hexapod robot
• Create/Asus - instructions for setting up a Create/Asus combo or Calliope
• Aibo - soon to be deprecated, setup your workstation (Mac, Linux, or Cygwin) and then install the cross-compiler as described from this link

Once you have installed and built Tekkotsu, you may wish to learn more about execution and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) command line environment.

Mirage provides a 3D simulation environment with support for physics. The Mirage source code is included with the Tekkotsu distribution, however it requires some additional steps to install the prerequisite libraries.

Instructions are provided on the Mirage homepage, however specialized Linux installation instructions are archived on the wiki.

by Akkarit Sangpetch and Owen Durni

Allows you to graphically view State Machine status, and record execution traces with rich media logging. Written using the Eclipse development framework, requires Java 1.6.

See the Storyboard tutorial page for more information.

• Linux (GTK) x86 (v2.0.0, B)
• Linux (GTK) x86-64 (v2.0.0, B)
• Windows (v2.0.0, B)
• Mac OS X Intel 64bit (v2.0.0, B)
• Mac OS X 32bit (v1.0.2, Java 5, B)
  Java 6 isn’t available for 32-bit OS X, so support is frozen at 1.0.2
• Source code is available via CVS checkout

Linux Installation: copy storyboard-executable to Tekkotsu/tools, you can then run Storyboard from the Tekkotsu/tools/bin directory. (hint: put Tekkotsu/tools/bin on your $PATH)

Mac Installation: put the application anywhere you like. Double click to launch.

The EasierTrain tool performs automatic object segmentation for faster color classification. Tekkotsu includes a ‘EasyTrain’ tool which requires manual specification of colorspace boundaries, so if you expect to do a lot of color calibration you may wish to install this tool instead.