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This is our general research software, if you're interested in specifically our 3-D printer software, please visit the [Educational ARES Repo](https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/Educational-ARES).\n\n## 🎛️ Overview\n**ARES OS 2.0** acts as the core central hub that connects and coordinates components such as devices, planners, and analyzers into cohesive research campaigns. Built on a modular, distributed architecture, ARES provides the framework for defining complex, multi-step experiments and managing all connected systems from a unified dashboard.\n\n## ✨ Key Features\n### Architecture\n- **ARES UI (Web Client)**: The user interface for defining campaigns, monitoring progress, and interacting with devices via a standard web browser.\n- **ARES Service (Back-End)**: The core component that hosts business logic, manages the component lifecycle of devices, planners, and analyzers, and executes campaign orchestration.\n\n### System Integration and Extensibility\n* **Centralized Orchestration:** ARES connects and manages the flow of data and control between Planners (AI/logic), Analyzers (post-processing), and Devices (physical hardware).\n* **Cross-Platform Support:** ARES OS is compatible with Linux, macOS and Windows\n* **Language Agnostic API:** Protobuf and gRPC provide a language agnostic API for integrating with ARES. Full support for creating custom components is provided for:\n  * C#: Using the native ARES libraries\n  * Python: Thanks to the PyARES library (See Related Projects)\n* **Component Management:** Devices, Planners, and Analyzers can be added, removed and edited easily via dedicated settings menus within the ARES software.\n\n### Campaign Creation\n- **Experiment Templates**: Users craft complex research campaigns by defining **Experiment Templates.**\n- **Template Components**: Each template specifies:\n  - **Planning Parameters**: The values you're asking your planner to provide for your experiments.\n  - **Startup Script**: A set of steps executed once at the beginning of an experiment before running the first iteration of your experiment template.\n  - **Experiment Script**: The core logic of your campaign. A set of defined steps ARES executes with every iteration of your experiment.\n  - **Closeout Script**: The closeout logic of your campaign. Ensures all hardware is set to an optimal state before finishing a campaign. This logic is also used in the event a campaign fails to complete.\n  - **Analysis Assignment**: Analyzers define their specific input needs, and ARES allows you to define what values from your campaign will match these expected values.\n  - **Planner Assignment**: The assignment of your planning parameters to specific planning services.\n\n### Dashboard \u0026 Control\n- **Unified Dashboard**: A single web interface for defining campaigns, monitoring execution progress and more.\n- **Direct Device Control**: Users can directly control and monitor the status of all added devices from the ARES Dashboard.\n\n## 🛠️ Installation \u0026 Deployment\nARES OS 2.0 offers two deployment methods: the simple [ARES Launcher](https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/ARES-Launcher) desktop app for local use, or manual build/run for custom environments.\n\n### Option 1: Using the ARES Launcher (Recommended)\nFor the easiest local deployment, use the ARES Launcher desktop application. Download the latest release for your operating system from the [ARES Launcher Releases](https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/ARES-Launcher/releases). Follow the documentation outlined in the ARES Launcher repository.\n\n### Option 2: Manual Build and Run\n**Prerequisites**\n- **.NET 10 SDK** (Required for all components)\n- **Entity Framework Core Tools**: Required for managing database migrations\n  ```bash\n  dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef\n  ```\n- **An Integrated Development Environment (IDE):**\n  - **Recommendation: Visual Studio 2026** for the best C# and Blazor development experience.\n\n**Steps**\n1. **Clone the repository:**\n  ```Bash\n  git clone https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/ARES.git\n  cd ARES\n  ```\n2. **Trust HTTPS Development Certificate**\n  ```Bash\n  dotnet dev-certs https --trust\n  ```\n3. **Restore Dependencies and Build**\n  ```Bash\n  dotnet restore\n  dotnet build\n  ```\n4. **Initialize Database**\n  ```Bash\n  dotnet run --project .\\AresService\\AresService.csproj --migrate\n  ```\n5. **Start ARES**\n```Bash\ndotnet run --project .\\AresService\\AresService.csproj\ndotnet run --project .\\UI\\UI.csproj\n```\n6. **Navigate to the UI** \u003cbr\u003e\u003c/br\u003e\nOpen a browser of your choice and navigate to [https://localhost:7084](https://localhost:7084). If you've started ARES successfully, this will open the ARES Dashboard.\n\n## 🔗 Related Projects and References\nARES OS 2.0 relies on the following repositories for its operation foundation, component creation, and simplified installation:\n- **ARES Launcher:** Desktop application for installing and managing local ARES instances with a simple UI. **(Downloadable Releases Available)**\n  - https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/ARES-Launcher\n- **ARES Datamodel:** Defines the universal **Protobuf/gRPC contracts** used for communication between the ARES Service, UI, and all custom components.\n  - https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/ARES-Datamodel\n- **PyARES:** The official ARES Python library for building custom planners, analyzers and devices, enabling support beyond the native C# environment.\n  - https://github.com/AFRL-ARES/PyARES\n\n## CLEARANCE\nDistribution A. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited. 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