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• Tutorial
  • Installing pySimiam
    • External dependencies
    • Downloading pySimiam
  • Running pySimiam
• Using PySimiam in Coursera ‘Control of mobile robots’ course
  • Introduction
    • Installation
    • Mobile Robot
  • Week 1. Getting to know pySimiam
    • Grading
  • Week 2. Understanding the robot
    • Transformation from unicycle to differential drive dynamics
    • Odometry
    • Convertion from raw IR values to distances in meters
    • Grading
  • Week 3. Reaching the goal
    • Implementing the PID
    • Ensuring the right ω
    • Grading
  • Week 4. Avoiding obstacles
    • AvoidObstacles controller
    • QuickBot motor limitations
    • Grading
  • Week 5. Mixing behaviours
    • Linear velocity dependent on angular velocity
    • Blending behaviours
    • Switching between behaviours
    • Mix blending and switching
    • Joystick and switching (optional)
    • Grading
  • Week 6. Following walls
    • Estimate wall geometry
    • Find the closest wall point
    • Compute the heading vector
    • Testing
    • Grading
  • Controlling the real QuickBot
    • Establishing the connection
    • Calibrating the motors
    • Running the robot
  • Week 7. Bringing it all together
    • Finding out if any progress is being made
    • Finding out if going straight for the goal makes sense
    • Switching
    • Testing
    • Grading
    • Having fun
• World files
  • Creating new worlds
  • File format
• Implementing your own robot
  • The robot is a SimObject
  • The robot moves
  • Information about the robot
  • Testing
  • API
• Writing a supervisor
  • The simple case
  • Using the state machine
  • Run-time access to parameters
  • Drawing additional stuff
  • API
• Creating a controller
  • API
• Useful User API
  • SimObject
    • Pose
    • SimObject and simple shapes
  • Robots and the world
    • Robot
    • Interaction between the robot and the supervisor
    • Sensor
  • Supervisor/Controller system
    • Supervisor
    • Controller
• Creating a new GUI
  • Subclassing Renderer
  • API
• PySimiam API Documentation
  • Simulator
    • Helper structures
    • Collision detection
  • SimObject
    • Pose
    • SimObject and simple shapes
  • Robots and the world
    • Robot
    • Interaction between the robot and the supervisor
    • Sensor
  • Supervisor/Controller system
    • Supervisor
    • Controller
  • Graphical Interface
    • Drawing
    • UI
  • XML
    • World files
    • Parameter files
    • Readers and writers

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• Module Index
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