WebotsTM: Professional Mobile Robot Simulation

TL;DR

WebotsTM is a comprehensive mobile robot simulation software that enables rapid prototyping, environment customization, and transfer of control programs to real robots, supporting multiple robot types and sensors.

Contribution

This paper introduces WebotsTM, a versatile simulation platform for mobile robotics that integrates detailed modeling, programming, and real-world transfer capabilities.

Findings

Supports transfer to several real mobile robots

Allows detailed environment and robot property customization

Has been in development and testing for over 7 years

Abstract

Cyberbotics Ltd. develops WebotsTM, a mobile robotics simulation software that provides you with a rapid prototyping environment for modelling, programming and simulating mobile robots. The provided robot libraries enable you to transfer your control programs to several commercially available real mobile robots. WebotsTM lets you define and modify a complete mobile robotics setup, even several different robots sharing the same environment. For each object, you can define a number of properties, such as shape, color, texture, mass, friction, etc. You can equip each robot with a large number of available sensors and actuators. You can program these robots using your favorite development environment, simulate them and optionally transfer the resulting programs onto your real robots. WebotsTM has been developed in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, thoroughly tested, well documented and continuously maintained for over 7 years. It is now the main commercial product available from Cyberbotics Ltd.