ADVANCED AND ROBOT PROGRAMMING
| CODE | 86736 |
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| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2022/2023 |
| CREDITS |
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| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | ING-INF/05 |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| TEACHING LOCATION |
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| SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
| TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
OVERVIEW
Programming in Robotics includes several topics: 1) writing and debugging a soft/hard real time programme, 2) the operating system structure, and its relevant features, 3) concurrent / distributed programming, 4) designing complex, distributed, modular software applications. ARP covers mostly the mid topics of the list above. ARP, RTOS and SOFAR cooperate in addressing all topics. However, no cross-prerequisites exist.
AIMS AND CONTENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The goal of the course is to give the students the fundamentals of POSIX programming, concurrent programming, and inter-process communication (i.e., interrupts, signals, pipes, threads, semaphores, shared memory, sockets, publish/subscribe methods).
AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Following Bloom's taxonomy, the student will achieve the following results (levels 2 to 4):
- Describe the behaviour of the different communication / synchronization primitives between tasks and processes (events, shared memory, messages) both in a single and in networked machines.
- Apply state-of-practice concurrent / distribute programming schemes to solve reference problems in robotics.
- Compare different communication / synchronization primitives in solving common robotic problems, and
- Motivate the selection of the most suitable for a specific process.
- Design and test concurrent / distributed programmes to solve standard, complex, relevant cases in robotics.
PREREQUISITES
- Programming in C Language (advanced concepts)
- Basic structure of an Operating System's kernel
- Basic networking concepts
TEACHING METHODS
IMPORTANT NOTICE! The following scheme describes the course organisation in case of mixed presence/distance modality. If the distance modlity is not in use, don't consider all references to "streaming": teaching and some exercises will be in the performed in the classroom. Some study material will be in any case available in videoclip form. 
SYLLABUS/CONTENT
The course is composed by 12 modules, one per week.
- Course intro
- Op sys architecture 1
- Op sys architecture 2
- SysCalls1: processes
- SysCalls2: threads
- SysCalls3: mutual exclusion, synchronization
- SysCalls4: pipes
- SysCalls5: non determinism
- SysCalls6: events
- SysCalls7: sockets
- Publish/Subscribe: D-BUS
- Real cases analysis
Each module includes an assignment whose solution is discussed in a successive module. The reference framework is the POSIX standard.
RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY
The whole study material (reference textbooks, slides, examples) is available in the AulaWeb portal.
TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD
Office hours: Students having troubles in learning the course concepts can get in touch with the teacher: during classes contacting the teacher through internet, any time, at the following addresses: renato.zaccaria@unige.it (email) renato.zaccaria (skype name) using instant messages through Skype The teacher's office is located in Genova, Viale Causa 13, floor 0.
Exam Board
RENATO UGO RAFFAELE ZACCARIA (President)
ANTONIO SGORBISSA
FULVIO MASTROGIOVANNI (President Substitute)
LESSONS
LESSONS START
Class schedule
All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.
EXAMS
EXAM DESCRIPTION
The final exam is only one othe component of the assessment process. The exam mark will contribute approximatively with 22% - 33% of the full assessment.
The exam consists in an on line test on the AulaWeb portal, with questions related to the learning outcomes. The test is done in presence in a classroom. Exceptionally the test may be performed remotely, with motivated reasons following the University rules in force.
ASSESSMENT METHODS
The course implements a continuous assessment process. All the assignments proposed to students every week may contribute to it. Intermediate and final, more complex, assignments will be also proposed. Assignments are evaluated if delivered in a regular basis, respecting specific deadlines.
The final mark will take into account both the exam and the continuous evaluation of assessments, giving specific values to the different components.
All the assignment deadlines will be closed before the last exam session of the semester s(approximatively end of February for semester 1 and mid September for semester 2).
Exam schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17/01/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | NOTICE! The exam will be in room E4. |
| 14/02/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | NOTICE! The exam will be in room E4. |
| 21/06/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | NOTICE! The exam will be in room E4. |
| 24/07/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | NOTICE! The exam will be in room E4. |
| 13/09/2023 | 09:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | NOTICE! The exam will be in room E4. |
FURTHER INFORMATION
Special assessments will be defined for those students who decide to pass the exam in the second semester.