Hi,

  Sorry for the lack of update in the last few months, I've been very busy with work and thesis and didn't have time for anything else. Expect more updates from now on and I will be adding more tutorial sections soon. I've been receiving a lot of emails about the mricp driver and compiling for the new playerstage release. MRICP is now an official plugin in playerstage and you don't have to compile it separately any more, here is the location of the updated driver code if you are interested http://playerstage.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/playerstage/code/player/trunk/server/drivers/mixed/mricp/, it is bundeled with playerstage so you don't have to download it. The driver's name in playerstage is "mricp" instead of "MRICP" (case sensitive) so update your configuration files with the new name.
 Finally, I released (un-officially) a new beta version of autogallery too, this version contains some major improvements and a lot of new features were added since the old alpha version. This release is stable but expect few bugs and you can get it from http://plugins.e107.org/e107_plugins/psilo/psilo.php?artifact.510 (3656 downloads until now ).  More for later ...

Regards,
Tarek

tutorial sections   alpha version   e107 plugins   autogallery   beta version

I just finished from integrating my N95 internal accelerometer with my wheelchair system and now i am able to control the wheelchair by simply tilting the mobile phone. This application has great potentials, i will write a detailed instructions about how to integrate the accelerometer with a linux P.C and upload a video soon. Check this forum link for the code.

accelerometer   forum link   wheelchair   mobile phone   linux

SSPP (Search Space Path Planning) player/stage plugin driver has been added to the download section. This driver is a wrapper for my path planning library and it simplifies the interaction between player clients and the library. The driver works just like the wavefront driver, but it's better suited for narrow areas and passages where the wavefront fails to find paths. All you need to do is provide a goal destination and the driver will find a path and use the underlying position device to drive the robot to that destination, check the wiki for more information. This is the first release of the driver and i haven't really tested it well enough. If you find any bugs or problems please report them to the bug tracker.

narrow areas   planning library   search space   bug tracker   passages

My Path Planning library is now added to my downloads. I have been developing this library for a while and I think it reached a decent stability, therefore I decided to share it with the rest of those who might be interested. This Library uses an efficient path planning strategy that is described in one of my papers . I tried to make the documentation as clear as possible, you can either check the doxygen generated documentation that comes with the library or visit the wiki that contains a guide about how to compile and link the library to your code. Hope you all enjoy it, please report any bugs so that I can fix it ...

planning library   wiki   bugs   downloads

You can now get the MRICP driver from the download section. This is a player/stage driver that provides you with resonably accurate localization and locally consistat maps for navigation and path planning. This driver supports multiple lasers and uses the MRICP (Map Reference Iterative Closest Point) algorithm to scan match. This driver has many configuration parameters that i tried to document as much as possible but the default configurations are sufficient for many cases. Let me know if you find any bugs. Enjoy ...

point algorithm   configuration parameters   stage driver   closest point   default configurations

After a month of travelling in between Lebanon and UAE i am back to Sydney and i will be updating the website more often. I will also add some photos from the trip soon so keep on visiting.

lebanon   sydney   photos

For those of you who are asking about what happened to the old website, it's still up and running but it's no longer the root website and if you are still interested in checking it's content then here is the link : http://www.tarektaha.com/mysite/default.aspx and yes i know it looked better but i haven't finish the new design for this website yet and i am sure you will like. I am gradually adding more content to this website and enchancing it but things are comming up slowly as i don't have too much spare time so please bare with me.

spare time   aspx   new design

I added the media gallery to the site and it will contain videos and images personal and related to robotics research, so if you have images or videos that you think are interesting to have on my website then send them and i will happily add them. Try to comment and rate some of those files if you have the chance. And ya, i added few game for those of you who like to procrastinate every now and then, so enjoy and try to beat my scores

robotics research   ya   images   game

I added some downloads to my download section, check them out and please report any bugs you find in the code. For some of the downloads you will have to be a member to be able to download them, it's just a way to know who is downloading my programs, count the number of downloads and keep the members updated about new releases and modifications. Please note that when you sign in as a member your details will be safe and i will not give your details to any third party, i know how un-ethical this can be and irretates me so i will not be doing it.

new releases   bugs   third party   downloads

apologies   new website