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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".

The new MansOS homepage and git repository is at mansos.net

The information below may be a bit outdated. Please read wiki at github.

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General information

• Introduction
• Philosophy
• Architecture
• MansOS features - a simple list of features supported by MansOS
• MansOS tutorial
• Declarative programming with MansOS
• API - reference manual/wiki

Access (Download)

Installing MansOS

• MansOS SVN repository access

• 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
• MansOS IDE
• Application examples
• Setting up and using Makefiles
• Eclipse setup
• Compiling MansOS with IAR Embedded Workbench
• Debugging and testing
• 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

• G. Strazdins, L. Selavo, "Wireless Sensor Network Software Design Rules", Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, VOL. 2(2014) NO. 2, 2014.

• G. Strazdins, A. Elsts, K. Nesenbergs, L. Selavo, "Wireless Sensor Network Operating System Design Rules Based on Real-World Deployment Survey", Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 2013; 2(3):509-556.

• A. Elsts, J. Judvaitis, L. Selavo, "SEAL: A Domain-Specific Language for Novice Wireless Sensor Network Programmers," Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2013 39th EUROMICRO Conference on , vol., no., pp.220,227, 4-6 Sept. 2013.

• A. Elsts, G. Strazdins, A. Vihrov, L. Selavo, "Design and Implementation of MansOS: a Wireless Sensor Network Operating System," Scientific Papers, University of Latvia, volume 787, pp 79–105, 2012.

• A. Elsts, L. Selavo, "A User-Centric Approach to Wireless Sensor Network Programming Languages." In SESENA ’12: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Software Engineering for Sensor Network Applications, pages 29–30, New York, NY, USA, 2012.

• G. Strazdins, A. Elsts, L. Selavo. "Mansos: easy to use, portable and resource efficient operating system for networked embedded devices." Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. ACM, 2010. (pdf)

• LiteOS, the original OS from which MansOS branched

• Flexible Hardware abstraction describing the HPL - HAL - HIL architecture