How to debug my experiment

This tutorial guides you through steps to debug a faulty experiment. Upon completing the tutorial, you will have learnt about the data monitors, the visualizers, the logging mechanism, the online editing tools and you will have fixed the tutorial example experiment.

Your initial move is to connect to the online Platform from http://neurorobotics.net if you are a registered user, or to start your locally installed Platform.

Then you need to browse the template experiments and clone the one called Tutorial: How to debug my experiment. You can use the filter to find it easily.

Finally, start the simulation by hitting the Launch button and follow Step 1 hereunder.

• Step 1: using monitoring tools
  • Context
  • The spike monitor and the joint monitor
  • The ROS terminal
• Step 2: fixing transfer function errors
  • Context
  • The Transfer Functions Editor
• Step 3: fixing the brain file
  • Context
  • Using the log console
  • Save data to a CSV file
  • The Brain Editor
• Step 4: debugging performance issues
  • Context
  • The performance monitor