Tutorial Video: 01 How to Login to My Page

Summary

1. Submit your application to be an Australian KIBO RPC team here.

2. You will soon receive an email containing your login ID and password (PW) for accessing My Page.

*Since important information from the secretariat is uploaded on this site, please check it regularly.

Tutorial Video: 02 How to Set up Android Studio

Summary

1. Access to here to set up Android Studio.

2. Download “Android Studio 3.6.3” (Not the latest version)

3. Launch the downloaded installer and install Android Studio.

4. Open the installed Android Studio and install the Android SDK (Software Development Kit).

5. Update the SDK version specified in the programming manual.

*Ensure your PC meets the following requirements:

• 64-bit processor
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB RAM recommended)
• Ubuntu 20.04(64-bit version or Windows 10 (64-bit version)

*Since important information from the secretariat is uploaded on this site, please check it regularly.

Tutorial Video: 03 How to Build APK and Simulator

Summary

1. Download the sample APK (Android Application Package) from here.

2. Launch Android Studio and import the downloaded sample APK.

3. Compile the sample APK to run it on the simulator.

4. Access the simulator via My page.

5. Drag and Drop the compiled APK file to the slot and click the “start simulation“ button. (Takes approximately 20 minutes)

6. Review the simulation results by clicking the “View Result” button.

*Sample APK is just created by the secretariat solely for instructional purposes for the teams. We recommend reviewing the contents and structure of the sample APK to gain an understanding of the programming.

Tutorial Video: 04 Explanation of SampleAPK

Summary

1. Improve the sample APK based on your strategy. In this video, Tips are explained below.

• What is the sample APK
• Contained program
• Arguments and Return Values
• Movement and Rotation of Astrobee
• APIs

2. Run the improved APK on the simulator.

3. Review the results and continue refining it until you achieve desirable outcomes.

*Sample APK is just created by the secretariat solely for instructional purposes for the teams.

Tutorial Video: 05 How to Improve Your SampleAPK

Summary

1. Improve the sample APK based on your strategy. In this video, Tips are explained below.

• Logging
• Astrobee movement
• Program for handling disturbances
• Image saving

2. Run the improved APK on the simulator.

3. Review the results and continue refining it until you achieve desirable outcomes.

*Since this tutorial is for the 3rd Kibo-RPC, please adjust your APK in accordance with the guidelines of the 5th Kibo-RPC

Tutorial Video: 06 Conditional Branch and Exception Handling

Summary

1. Improve the sample APK based on your strategy. In this video, Tips are explained below.

• Conditional brenches
• Exception handling
• Common errors students tend to encounter
• Image saving

2. Run the improved APK on the simulator.

3. Review the results and continue refining it until you achieve desirable outcomes.

*Since this tutorial is for the 4th Kibo-RPC, please adjust your APK in accordance with the guidelines of the 5th Kibo-RPC

Tutorial Video: 07 Image Recognition Programming

Summary

1. Improve the sample APK based on your strategy. In this video, Tips are explained below.

• Image Recognition Programming
• AR tag
• Correcting Distortion
• Pattern matching

2. Run the improved APK on the simulator.

3. Review the results and continue refining it until you achieve desirable outcomes.