Generating heatmaps

This page describes how to generate heatmaps from simulation runs.

Open up the RAWSimO.Visualization app and go to the Misc tab. With the purple and yellow folder icons you can set the instance layout (.xinst) and heat data to use (.heat). The instance layout needs to be generated and the heat data will be written by the simulation after the simulation is finished. There is different data available for heatmap rendering like how often a waypoint was the destination of a robot's trip or where the robots traveled during simulation. The data is chosen when selecting the respective .heat file. Furthermore, different settings can be chosen, most prominently the length of a tile (or the number of tiles), a relative radius indicating the reach to consider datapoints in for a tile and the colors for low and high heat. A resulting image may look like the following: