CiberRato Robot Simulation Environment
Universidade de Aveiro / IEETA

Information

CiberRato Robot Simulation Environment simulates the movement of robots inside a labyrinth. Robots objective is to go from their starting position to beacon area and then return to their start position.

The MicroRato competition [http://microrato.ua.pt/], held annually at Aveiro University, uses these these tools for its Explorer league.

Contents

• simulator - The simulator source code
• Viewer - The Visualizer source code
• logplayer - The logplayer source code
• GUISample - Graphical robot agent (C++) source code
• robsample - robot agent (C) source code
• jClient - robot agent (Java) source code
• pClient - robot agent (Python) source code
• Labs - examples of labyrinths used in previous competitions
• startAll - script that runs the simulator, the visualizer and 5 GUISamples
• startSimViewer - script that runs the simulator and the Viewer

Install

The source code was compiled with gcc/g++ - Gnu Project C/C++ Compiler (gcc version 9.3.0) using the Qt libraries (release 5.12.8) on Ubuntu 20.04.

It is required to have the development version of gcc/g++, cmake, Qt libraries release 5.x installed in the system prior to compilation. On Ubuntu 20.04 run the following:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake qtmultimedia5-dev

Then in the repository base dir, execute:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

To run the simulator, Viewer and C++ agent, execute (at the repository base dir):

./startAll

Authors

• Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, nunolau@ua.pt

• Artur C. Pereira, University of Aveiro, artur@ua.pt

• Andreia Melo, University of Aveiro, abmelo@criticalsoftware.com

• Antonio Neves, University of Aveiro, an@ua.pt

• Joao Figueiredo, University of Aveiro joao.figueiredo@ieeta.pt

• Miguel Rodrigues, University of Aveiro, miguel.rodrigues@ua.pt

• Eurico Pedrosa, University of Aveiro, efp@ua.pt

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