MansOS

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MansOS = Mobile agent netted sensor Operating System.

MansOS is an operating system for wireless sensor networks and netted embedded systems. It is designed for users familiar with C programming and Unix-like environment. MansOS supports various platforms and controllers, including TelosB and MSP430, Atmega controllers and Arduino, and others. Users may develop and test their systems on a PC as a virtual "mote".

General information

• Introduction
• Philosophy
• Architecture
• MansOS features - a simple list of features supported by MansOS
• MansOS tutorial
• Declarative programming with MansOS

Access (Download)

• Installing MansOS

• MansOS SVN quick access
  • Read-only access is open to public. For example, to get the whole MansOS tree in the current-directory/mansos do this:

svn co http://mansos.net/svn/mansos/ mansos

• • Read-write access is open to authenticated developers via svn+ssh.

svn co svn+ssh://yourloginname@mansos.net/svn/mansos mansos

• Experimental development version of MansOS code is available at http://code.google.com/p/mansos/
  • Read-only access to the general public:

svn checkout http://mansos.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ mansos-read-only 

• • Read-write access to MansOS commiters:

svn checkout https://mansos.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ mansos --username your.username@gmail.com

Development with MansOS - tools and techniques

• MansOS tutorial
• Building MansOS - description of make targets.
• MansOS configuration options - configuration file syntax and options.
• MansOS platforms - List of supported platforms and platform specific notes, e.g.:
  • make syntax
  • dependencies for this platform,
  • where is the particular executable built
  • what options are available for this platform
• MansOS API
• Application examples
• Setting up and using Makefiles
• Eclipse setup
• Compiling MansOS with IAR Embedded Workbench
• Debugging and testing
• [[MansOS_PC_Emulation | Mote network emulation on PC]
• FAQ

Developing the MansOS - notes

• Source directory structure
• Coding standard
• Adapting a new hardware platform
• Future developments - Reference Guide for a simpler interface

Hardware notes

• An Ideal_mote should... | would have... (notes for future HW designs)

Chips

• MCU: MSP430
• Radio: CC2420
• Atmega chips
• Nordic Sermiconductors chips family

Platforms

• Supported platforms, such as telosb, Tmote Sky, Mini, Arduino, generic msp430, Atmel chips, etc.

Related publications and papers

• Flexible Hardware abstraction describing the HPL - HAL - HIL architecture
• LiteOS paper, the original OS from which MansOS branched
• MansOS poster abstract, presented at Sensys 2010 (PDF)