Welcome to COSM’s documentation!

Overview

Core Swarm (COSM) is a middleware-esque library providing:

• A Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL): A common API to different platforms (ARgoS, ROS, etc) which client applications can write to.

• A see Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): A common API to different agent/robot types which client applications to write to.

• A collection of reusable algorithms and scaffolding to maximize reuse across MAS projects and reduce development time (see COSM Software Modules for a very brief overview).

Getting Started

• COSM Software Modules
• Supported Platforms and Hardware
  • Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL)
  • Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• Setting Up COSM
  • User Setup
  • Developer Setup
• Using COSM: Runtime Configuration
  • XML Configuration
• COSM API
  • Page Hierarchy
  • Full API

Extending COSM

• Adding A New Agent Type To The HAL