Description
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Qualia is a free software library for embedded AVR agent-based systems written in simple C++.
The software is licensed under the Gnu GPL version 3 (see LICENSE file).

Version
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Current version is 0.1.

Authors
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Head developer:
Sofian Audry
info(@)sofianaudry(.)com


Thanks
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This project is realized with the support of CINQ as part of the Emerge research project with 
LabXmodal (Concordia Univeristy, MontrŽal), IDMIL (McGill University, MontrŽal) and 
Moment Factory (MontrŽal).

Objectives
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1. Allow to easily switch between different environments
 * Two modes: simulation (computer) vs embedded (AVR).
 * The agent should stay the same.
 * Interchangeable environment simulation vs embedded
 * Easy switch between the two modes

2. Well-managed on AVR chips
 * Low memory trace (Flash and SRAM)
 * Static allocation

3. Modular
 * Agent can stay the same while environments are exchanged
 * eg. easy switch of reward function (reinforcement learning)

4. Multi-paradigm
 * Procedural
 * FSM
 * Reinforcement learning