Metacontrol simulation

This repository contains the ROS simulated system used to demonstrate the application of the Metacontrol framework presented in This paper

In this simulation, a simple navigation task is given to a bridgeback mobile base controlled with the standard ROS navigation stack. A metacontrol subsystem uses a model of available configurations and associated launch files of the navigation stack to reconfigure at runtime the move_node when certain quality criteria (non-functional requirements) related to safety and energy are not met.

Setup using wstool

In the following instructions we assume that the ROS workspace is called metacontrol_ws, but you can give it any name you want.

mkdir -p ~/metacontrol_ws/src
cd ~/metacontrol_ws
wstool init src https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rosin-project/metacontrol_sim/master/metacontrol_sim.rosinstall
rosdep install --from-paths ./src -y -i -r --skip-keys="abb_rws_interface"
catkin b
source devel/setup.bash

Build the code

The code can be built using the standard catkin build process.

cd ~/metacontrol_ws
source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash
catkin build
source devel/setup.bash

Run the simulation

Simply run the following launch file:

roslaunch metacontrol_sim metacontrol_sim_reasoner.launch

You should be able to see an RViz instance where you can follow the navigation of the mobile robot. In the terminal where you executed the launchfile, you should see a very verbose output of the execution of the nodes that constiture the metacontrol subsystem.