Morse simulator environment

The aim of this project is to enhance the existing educational tool for the robotics course based on Morse.

features to implement

• Simplify the installation through an installer script
• Configure and start a simulation from a conf file
• Detect collisions
• Scoring
• Simulate energy losses
• Robot2robot communication with bandwidth limits
• Possibility to use different machines for environment and robots

Installation

Bash script installer.sh installs Morse simulator and all dependencies useful to the project.
To run the script open a terminal and type:
$ chmod +x installer.sh
$ ./installer.sh
The installer needs an Internet connection and apt-get command, it was tested on Xubuntu 14.04.4 and Xubuntu 16.04.1.
Check your system requirements and find other informations about Morse simulator here.

Dependencies list:

• cmake
• cmake-data
• pkg-config
• g++
• scons
• openjdk-8-jre-headless
• openjdk-8-jdk
• blender
• git
• python3
• python3-dev
• python3-numpy
• python3-pip
• pytoml

Directory diagram

After the installation new files are added in /opt. At the top of directory hierarchy there is eduMorse folder, it contains:

• games -> blend files for maps and objects, conf files for games and robots
• libraries -> C and Java libraries to support programming in these languages
• score -> scripts to count score and collisions, a layer manages communication between them
• socket -> client-server communication
• project_template -> configuration files (TOML format) to set a simulation, main function in C and Java, example of Python script to control a robot

See directory diagram.