Robotic Software Simulator

Simulator for Linear Actuator and Mobile Robots (using Arduino)

This simulator is an Arduino simulator for robots, those being:

• Linear Actuator, which is composed by a servo, a joystick and two buttons acting as path limiters.
• Mobile robot, composed by two servos which will move the wheels, an ultrasonic sensor and, depending on the case:
  • Two infrared sensors: This robot is thought to be used in path following cases.
  • Four infrared sensors: This robot is thought to be used in labyrinth solving.

This system is designed with the intent to allow the development of new robots and libraries. In fewer words, it can be expanded with more robots and more Arduino code (not only libraries, but further Arduino syntax).

Getting the simulator

Binary downloads

Official binaries for the simulator can be found here.

Generate executable

There are two ways of generating the program's executable. First one is by calling the build.py module:

python build.py

The alternative way is by using Pyinstaller on a command prompt:

pyinstaller main.spec

Both ways, a build and a dist folder will be created. It is under the second one where the application's folder (main) will be found.

In this folder you can find the executable for the application. Before opening it, you need to copy and paste in the dist/main folder the following things:

• assets
• buttons
• tests
• circuits.json
• robots.json

If opened, it will show two windows, a console and the program itself.

The new files 'circuits.json' and 'robots.json' must always be in the same directory as the executable (dist/main).

License

This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 3