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