Webots Overview

Introduction

Webots is a 3D mobile robot simulator allowing the users to simulate differentially wheeled robots, i.e., robots driven by two independant motors wheels. Users can create complex virtual worlds and simulate their robots within these environments. A complete programming library is provided to allow users to program the robots (usually using the C language). From the controller programs, it is possible to read sensor values and send motor commands to robots.

Requirements

Webots runs on Linux and Windows operating system. No special knowledge is required to play with the robots. A few notions of VRML is useful if you want to model your own worlds. Finally, the knowledge of the C language is necessary to program your own robot controllers.

Documentation

3D interface: use the three mouse buttons, including the wheel, to move in the 3D world. Press the shift key while dragging the mouse to move objects.

Two electronic manuals are provided within the Webots package in HTML and PDF formats:
  • The Webots User Guide is an introduction to the Webots simulation software. It includes an introduction, a tutorial and useful tips.
  • The Webots Reference Manual is useful if you want to program your own robot controller. It contains the description of the C libraries functions as well as the nodes used in the simulation models.

    Support

  • For an question installing or using Webots, please send an e-mail to: Olivier.Michel@cyberbotics.com. It will be my pleasure to help you getting Webots doing what you want. I also appreciate any bug report (with as much details or source files as possible, so that I can reproduce the bug).

    Thank you for using Webots! 


    URL: http://www.cyberbotics.com/webots3/doc/Readme.html
    Last updated: 25-Apr-02 by Olivier.Michel@cyberbotics.com