[evaal contest] Competing application EvAAL 15: Preliminary specifications

[Michele Girolami]

Dear competitors,

by this week we plan to release the application that will be used to measure your positioning software.  In the meantime, here are some indications.

Your application (the competing application) should run on a commercial Android phone, easy to hold in your hand (no tablets).  You will provide the phone yourself.

The measurement application (called StepLogger) will be provided by EvAAL and should be installed on your phone.  It will have two functionalities:

1) provide an interface for the actor to perform the measurement: the actor will walk along a predefined path and press a button when passing through some marked points: each time the button is pressed, a timestamp is logged

2) log the position estimation reported by the competing application, which is expected to generate two position estimates per second


The competing application reports the estimates by invoking this method, which is provided by the StepLogger app:

void logPosition(in long timestamp, in double x, in double y, in double z);

Below and attached to thid email is the AIDL (http://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl.html) with the signature of the method for logging

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// IMisuratoreService.aidl
package it.cnr.isti.misuratore;

// Declare any non-default types here with import statements

interface IMisuratoreService {
     void logPosition(in long timestamp, in double x, in double y, in double z);
}

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Please be aware of:

1) The AIDL file may be change in the future
2) We will announce every change to the AIDL file as well as news about the release of StepLogger via email (contest at evaal.aaloa.org)
3) In short time we will publish a technical document containing instructions for the competitors (check it out http://evaal.aaloa.org/)


For any doubt or question that is of potential interest for the competitors, we invite you to write to: contest at evaal.aaloa.org

Best regards and good luck!

Michele Girolami (software chair)

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Michele Girolami
ISTI – Area della Ricerca CNR
Via G.Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa       (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C62)
Email: michele.girolami at isti.cnr.it
Phone: +39 050 315 2958               Fax: +39 050 315 2040

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// IMisuratoreService.aidl
package it.cnr.isti.misuratore;

// Declare any non-default types here with import statements

interface IMisuratoreService {
    void logPosition(in long timestamp, in double x, in double y, in double z);
}