This wiki will be used to plan for the robotics competition, post materials, and host discussion. See the conference site or the robotics competition site for official information.
The qualification environment is distributed as an image of a RedHat Linux environment in VMWare. You can use VMWare Player (Windows and Linux) or VMWare Fusion (Mac OS X)
You are welcome to install Player/Stage/Gazebo on your own. Follow the directions on the Player Project Player Project Wiki and download the following versions from the Player Project download area.
In order to install Player/Stage/Gazebo, you will need to install the following supplemental packages.
Please update this page to account for any discrepancies you find while installing on your own system.
We recommend the use of the following tools:
You will likely have the most success installing Player/Stage/Gazebo on Linux.
See these directions from the playerstage-users mailing list.
Zach Dodds’ notes on installing Player & Gazebo on Mac OS X are a more complete resource.
Your best option is to use the image on the qualification DVD.
See Javaclient for Player|Stage for details including the API.
Refer to libplayerc_py for information on how to write a Python client to connect to a player server.
Zach Dodds has also started some notes on building a Python client.
Base platform:
Other possible platforms: