abstractmulticontroller.h

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 *   $Log: abstractmulticontroller.h,v $
 *   Revision 1.5  2008/04/17 14:54:44  martius
 *   randomGen added, which is a random generator with long period and an
 *    internal state. Each Agent has an instance and passed it to the controller
 *    and the wiring. This is good for
 *   a) repeatability on agent basis,
 *   b) parallel execution as done in ode_robots
 *
 *   Revision 1.4  2007/12/12 10:26:13  der
 *   MI: calculation of H(X) and H(Y|X) added
 *
 *   Revision 1.3  2007/04/19 13:48:20  robot3
 *   inserted new MI update function - needs O(1) instead of O(n^2)
 *
 *   Revision 1.2  2007/03/22 11:35:12  der
 *   corrected some bugs
 *
 *   Revision 1.1  2007/03/22 08:11:44  robot3
 *   abstract class for having multiple controllers for one Agent. See
 *   OneActiveMultiPassiveController for example.
 *

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#ifndef __ABSTRACTMULTICONTROLLER_H
#define __ABSTRACTMULTICONTROLLER_H

#include "abstractcontrolleradapter.h"

/**
 * Abstract class (interface) for using multiple controller.
 * A controller gets a number of input sensor values each timestep
 *  and has to generate a number of output motor values
 *
 *
 * This is an abstract class, it's useful for implementing multicontrollers such as the
 * OneActiveMultiPassiveController, which can be used with all Controllers.
 *
 * Any MulitController implementing this class should overwrite the methods step(...) and
 * stepNoLearning(...).
 */
class AbstractMultiController : public AbstractControllerAdapter {
public:

  /// contructor (hint: use $ID$ for revision)
        AbstractMultiController(AbstractController* controller, std::string controllerName)
                : AbstractControllerAdapter(controller) {
                        this->controllerNameList.push_back(controllerName);
                }

        virtual ~AbstractMultiController() {}

        /**
         * Adds a passive controller to this MultiController. If the Agent calls step(..)
         * or stepNoLearning(..), the MultiController calls not only the active controllers
         * step(...) but also the step(...) of all the passive controllers. (same for
         * stepNoLearning(..) ).
         *
         * Note: The initialisation of the MultiController with init(sensornumber, motornumber)
         * must be called after all passive controllers are added, otherwise you must
         * init the passive controller yourself (not recommended and can generate problems)
         */
        virtual void addPassiveController(AbstractController* passiveController, std::string name) {
                if (passiveController!=0) {
                        controllerList.push_back(passiveController);
                        controllerNameList.push_back(name);
                } // otherwise return
        }

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/*      AbstractMultiController should implement the following classes:         */
/*      AbstractController, Configurable, Inspectable, Storeable                    */
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/*      BEGIN methods of AbstractController                                     */
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  /** initialisation of the controller with the given sensor/ motornumber
   * Must NORMALLY be called before use. For all multicontroller
   * call first AbstractMultiController::init(sensornumber,motornumber)
   * if you overwrite this method
   */
        virtual void init(int sensornumber, int motornumber, RandGen* randGen = 0){
                AbstractControllerAdapter::init( sensornumber,motornumber);
                // init the other controllers
                        for(std::list<AbstractController*>::iterator i=controllerList.begin(); i != controllerList.end(); i++){
                                if (*i) (*i)->init(sensornumber,motornumber);
                        }
        }

          /** performs one step (includes learning).
      Calculates motor commands from sensor inputs.
        @param sensors sensors inputs scaled to [-1,1]
        @param sensornumber length of the sensor array
        @param motors motors outputs. MUST have enough space for motor values!
        @param motornumber length of the provided motor array
  */
        virtual void step(const sensor* sensors, int sensornumber,
                          motor* motors, int motornumber)=0;

  /** performs one step without learning.
        @see step
  */
        virtual void stepNoLearning(const sensor* sensors , int sensornumber,
                                    motor* motors, int motornumber)=0;


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/*      END methods of AbstractController                                           */
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/*      BEGIN methods of Configurable                                           */
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/*      END methods of Configurable                                                 */
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/*      BEGIN methods of Inspectable                                            */
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  /** The list of the names of all internal parameters given by getInternalParams().
      The naming convention is "v[i]" for vectors
       and "A[i][j]" for matrices, where i, j start at 0.
        @return: list of keys
   */
        virtual iparamkeylist getInternalParamNames() const {
                std::list<iparamkey> keyList;
                // return all parameters from the other controllers
                
                // get the name of the controller
                std::list<std::string>::const_iterator cname=controllerNameList.begin();
                // first active controller
                std::list<iparamkey> controllerKeyList = controller->getInternalParamNames();
                for( std::list<iparamkey>::iterator key=controllerKeyList.begin();key!=controllerKeyList.end();key++ )
                        keyList+= (*cname) + "" + (*key);
                
                // now the passive controllers
                for(std::list<AbstractController*>::const_iterator c=controllerList.begin(); c!= controllerList.end(); c++){
                        if (*c) {
                                cname++;
                                controllerKeyList = (*c)->getInternalParamNames();
                                for( std::list<iparamkey>::iterator key=controllerKeyList.begin();key!=controllerKeyList.end();key++ )
                                        keyList+= (*cname) + "" + (*key);
                        }
                }               
                return keyList;
        }

          /** @return: list of values
   */
        virtual iparamvallist getInternalParams() const {
                // return all parameters from the other controllers
                // return params from multicontroller itself
                std::list<iparamval> valList;
                // return all parameters from the other controllers
                
                // first active controller
                valList+= controller->getInternalParams();
                
                // now the passive controllers
                for(std::list<AbstractController*>::const_iterator c=controllerList.begin(); c!= controllerList.end(); c++) {
                        valList+=(*c)->getInternalParams();
                }
                //int j=0;
                return valList;
        }

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/*      END methods of Inspectable                                                  */
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/*      BEGIN methods of Storeable                                              */
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  /** stores the object to the given file stream (binary).
  */
        virtual bool store(FILE* f) const {
                return controller->store(f);
                // store the other controllers
                // store values from multicontroller itself
        }

  /** loads the object from the given file stream (binary).
  */
        virtual bool restore(FILE* f) {
                return controller->restore(f);
                // restore the other controllers
                // restore values from multicontroller itself
        }

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/*      END methods of Storeable                                                    */
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protected:
        // The AbstractController* controller is defined in AbstractControllerAdapter!
        std::list<AbstractController*> controllerList; // stores the other controllers
        std::list<std::string> controllerNameList; // stores the names of the controllers
};

#endif

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