Practical sessions on mobile robot behavior programming

This page describes how to set up and run the practical sessions.

• Download the practical session archive and save it in Documents (if you prefer to use another folder, just replace Documents by the path to your folder in the following).
• Once the download is completed, open your file manager, go in Documents and extract the archive. This will create a folder called robotics. Inside this folder you should have two folders called pyvrep-epuck and pypot. You can then delete the archive file (robotics.zip).
• For MacOS and Windows: If Jupyter Notebook is not installed on your computer, install Anaconda.
• Install CoppeliaSim 4.1.0 Edu
  • Download the CoppeliaSim 4.1.0 Edu version for your OS from https://www.coppeliarobotics.com/previousVersions
  • Install it
    • On Linux you just need to extract the archive and execute ./coppeliaSim.sh in a terminal
    • On Windows and MacOS, do a normal install
  • Launch CoppeliaSim. The simulator will open and close just after. This is due to a previously imposed limit on the runtime of Edu versions. To allow this version to run you need to:
    • On Windows
      • Go to C:\Program Files\CoppeliaRobotics\CoppeliaSimEdu\system
    • On Mac
      • Right-click on coppeliaSim in the Application folder, then Show Package content. Then go to Content/MacOS/system.
    • On Linux
      • On Linux, go to the system folder in the extracted folder.
    • Then, open the file usrset.txt
    • Add a line at the end of this file with allowOldEduRelease=7501
  • Then relaunch CoppeliaSim. It should now open normally.
• If asked, indicate that you accept incoming network connections (this is necessary for the connection with Jupyter Notebook).
• Once the simulator is open, launch jupyter notebook by opening another terminal (on Windows: open Anaconda Prompt instead) and executing:

cd Documents/robotics/pyvrep_epuck/notebooks/
jupyter notebook

• This will open a web page in the browser with a list of files. Click on the practical session you want to do (practical_session_1.ipynb if it is the first class). This will open a document in a new tab in your browser.

The rest of the session is described in this newly opened document, please continue from there.