Robot Software Architectures COMP3431/COMP9434 25T3

Submitting your second report and code

Posted by Tatjana Zrimec Monday 24 November 2025, 01:52:56 AM.

Every student is required to individually submit a report of no more than 10 pages. Treat this as an extension of your first report, so include the material from assignment 1 and add the descriptions of your later work. The report must include the following sections:

1. Background . What did you read/research to learn how to solve this problem (cite references).
2. Methodology . How your group solved the task.
3. Your individual contribution . This is the most important section and will be given the most weight.
4. An evaluation of the performance of your software, including an explanation of the performance that was observed during the live demonstration.
5. The limitations of your software, specifically any shortcoming or short cuts that were taken which may prevent your software solving some variations of the task, for example handling different maze configurations, placement of markers, sensitivity of variations in colours, etc.
6. Reference section. This is where is include references from section 1. Use proper scientific report format (i.e. authors, year, title, where published). If the reference is a website, include the URL and date accessed.

Be very careful about getting help from a Large Language Model. They can invent non-existent references and add irrelevant information. Including false information, even by accident, is a serious problem, so check the text carefully.

Please format the references using one of the following referencing styles:

• APA - American Psychological Association Style - <u> https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples </u>

• IEEE referencing style - https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/library-guides

Figures and tables should be numbered and have captions. Any references, figures or tables should be cited in the text, e.g, don’t just include them, without referring to them in the text.

If you have any additional material, like videos, photos or meeting notes, please include links.

Make sure to include your zID and group, as well as your name, at the beginning of the report.

Submission

Every student must submit a PDF file with their individual report through WebCMS or with the following command:

give cs3431 Report2 <zID>-report2.pdf 

Note that the report file name should also contain your zID, e.g. 555555-report2.pdf

Each group will also submit their source code. Only one member of your group should submit the ROS source directory in compressed TAR or ZIP format, with a README file included (maximum size 100 MB). The README should contain instructions on how to run your code.

Only submit the src directory, not the whole workspace.

The give submission specification is as follows:

give cs3431 Code src.[tar.gz | tgz | zip] 

You can also submit via this WebCMS page .

Additional lab week 10

Posted by Claude Sammut Monday 17 November 2025, 07:35:19 PM.

We'll run another extra lab on Tuesday week 10, starting at 2pm. Thursday groups may come at any time, but priority will be given to any Monday groups that have not finished yet.

Additional laboratory time in week 9

Posted by Claude Sammut Monday 10 November 2025, 04:39:37 PM, last modified Monday 10 November 2025, 07:04:10 PM.

There will be additional laboratory time in Week 9 on Tuesday 11/11/2025 for both labs.

As last time, we prefer:

• Monday lab groups from 14:00 to 16:00.
• Thursday lab groups from 16:00 to 18:00.