The framework has been updated - please pull again before starting with assignment 1.

[JJWRoeloffs]

As some of you might have noticed, I have been fixing bugs in the background during this first week of usage. Please update to the latest version (just using git pull), before starting the first assignment. Here is the changelog of things that happened since January 8th:

New features:

• The system now supports running multiple instances of CoppeliaSim side by side. This allows you to do more testing when training on systems with many (more than 8) CPU cores, and plenty of GPU power.
  • With this, you are no longer expected to change the start_coppelia_sim.* scripts yourself to pass novel command line arguments. They should expose all arguments you'd want to pass. The documentation of the scripts is here, and an example on how to run multiple instances can be found here
• Both SimulationRobobo and HardwareRobobo now take optional logger parameters to allow for a more advanced logging setup.

Bugfixes:

• The IR sensor now sends the values in the same order for simulation and hardware. This order is [BackL, BackR, FrontL, FrontR, FrontC, FrontRR, BackC, FrontLL], meaning only the hardware order changed.
• run.ps1 now sends through all passed arguments, instead of only the first.
• When running on Windows, the results/ directory is now created when it does not exist in parity with Linux and macOS.
• Passing negative numbers to the wheels to move backward should now be possible (It was the official docs that were wrong about it being impossible.)
• the .sleep() method is now no longer inconsistently marked as static for the hardware.
• Several issues with macOS not being able to start executables and docker containers were fixed, but sadly CoppeliaSim remains broken on some systems.

In addition, a lot of issues were fixed with the documentation, ranging from typos in provided commands to structure and readability.

Known issues:

• CoppeliaSim cannot be started with an enabled remote API from the commandline on some macOS systems, making it effectively unusable there.