soccerwindow2

soccerwindow2 is a visualization tool for the RoboCup Soccer Simulator.

• The RoboCup Soccer Simulator: http://github.com/rcsoccersim/
• RoboCup Official Homepage: http://www.robocup.org/

soccerwindow2 works as not only an alternative monitor/logplayer, but also a powerful visual debugger for developing a simulated soccer team.

• Visualizes internal status of agents.
• Provides a formation editor.
• Provides a label editor for machine learning.

Quick Start

The latest soccerwindow2 depends on the following libraries:

• Qt5 https://www.qt.io/
• Boost 1.41 or later https://www.boost.org/
• The latest librcsc https://github.com/helios-base/librcsc

Please install them first before you start the installation of soccerwindow2.

In the case of Ubuntu 22.04, execute the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential automake autoconf libtool libboost-all-dev qtbase5-dev qt5-qmake libfontconfig1-dev libaudio-dev libxt-dev libglib2.0-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev

In the case of Ubuntu 16.04 - 20.04, execute the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential automake autoconf libtool libboost-all-dev qt5-default libfontconfig1-dev libaudio-dev libxt-dev libglib2.0-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev

Then, install librcsc.

soccerwindow2 supports two types of build system. You can choose either one at your convenience.

Autotools

From its directory, execute commands:

./bootstrap
./configure
make

autotools will build the necessary binary as src/qt/soccerwindow2.

CMake

From its directory, execute commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

CMake will build the necessary binary as build/soccerwindow2.

Configuring

You may prefer to change the installation directory. Or, librcsc may be installed to the unusual location. In these cases, you need to configure the build settings.

Autotools

The default configuration will set up to install soccerwindow2 components under /usr/local. You may need administrator privileges to install soccerwindow2 into the default location. This locations can be modified by using configure's --prefix=DIR and related options. See ./configure --help for more details.

./configure --prefix=/path/to/installation

In the case of specifying the librcsc location, you need to use --with-librcsc option:

./configure --with-librcsc=/path/to/librcsc-prefix

You may also need to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

CMake

ccmake enables us to modify the build settings.

cd build
ccmake ..

Installing

From the root directory(Autotools) or build directory(CMake):

make install

The default configuration of Autotools will set up to install the soccerwindow2 components in /usr/local/bin for the executables. You may need administrator privilages to install soccerwindow2. In that case, type sudo make install.

Uninstalling

The following procedures will remove all the files that where installed, but not any directories that were created during the installation process. You may need to remove PREFIX/share/soccerwindow2 manually.

autotools

The soccerwindow2 can be easily removed by entering the distribution directory and running

make uninstall

CMake

Find install_manifest.txt under the build directory, then execute:

xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

Using soccerwindow2

To start soccerwindow2, just type

soccerwindow2

if you installed the executables in your PATH.

A simple convinient script sswindow2 will also be installed if you use Autotools. This script starts soccerwindow2 as a monitor client. To invoke the script, type

sswindow2

sswindow2 is equivalent to invoke soccerwindow2 -c -d.

soccerwindow2 will look in your home directory for the configuration file ~/.soccerwindow2. If this file does not exist, the new file will be created and populated with default values.

Reference

• Hidehisa Akiyama, Tomoharu Nakashima, HELIOS Base: An Open Source Package for the RoboCup Soccer 2D Simulation, In Sven Behnke, Manuela Veloso, Arnoud Visser, and Rong Xiong editors, RoboCup2013: Robot World XVII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2014.

@inbook{akiyama2014,
  author="Hidehisa AKIYAMA and Tomoharu NAKASHIMA",
  editor="Sven Behnke and Manuela Veloso and Arnoud Visser and Rong Xiong",
  title="HELIOS Base: An Open Source Package for the RoboCup Soccer 2D Simulation",
  booktitle="RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII",
  series="Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
  year="2014",
  publisher="Springer",
  address="Berlin",
  pages="528--535",
  isbn="978-3-662-44468-9",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_46",
  url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_46"
}