Ikaros

The goal of the project is to develop an open infrastructure for system level modeling of the brain including databases of experimental data, computational models and functional brain data. The system will make heavy use of the emerging standards for Internet based information and will make all information accessible through an open web-based interface.

You can use Ikaros software as a control architecture for CAD robots.

The main components of the Ikaros systems are: ￭ A platform independent simulation kernel ￭ A set of computational brain models ￭ A set of I/O modules for interfacing with data files and peripheral such as robots or video cameras ￭ Tools for building systems of interconnected models ￭ A plug-in architecture that allows new models to be easily added to the system ￭ A database with data from learning experiments that can be used for validation of the computational models.

Here are some key features of "Ikaros":

￭ Web-interface, ￭ support for multiple threads for multiprocessors systems, ￭ a new math library with support for math/vector coprocessors, ￭ and real-time functionality.

The project included in the Ikaros distribution is made with a nightly build version of Code::Blocks and with the MinGW compiler. To install this on your system, you need to download a number of packages and unzip them where both Code::Blocks and Windows can reach them. This documentation provides one solution to how to get all the packages at the same place and then set an environmental path in windows to that directory. The software packages used to perform the actions described in this document are listed at the end of the document. Ikaros will most likely work with later versions than those listed here.