Ever wanted to teach robot navigation without having to install many things (ex: ROS, a simulator, etc…)? If this ever happend to you, you might find this project interesting. This is a self-contained Python packge that contains a minimal simulator + a python client library. The simulator only runs the kinematic model, the robot is a simple two-wheeled mobile robot, it has a camera, a laser scanner, and publishes odomerty. So you can teach:
- Mapping (creating an occupancy grid)
- Path planning
- Path following
- etc..
Quick Start
pip install playareaThen you run the simulator GUI via:
playareaYou can now control the robot from Python as follows:
from playarea import Robot
robot = Robot() # connects to localhost:9000
robot.drive(v=0.2, w=0.5) # linear m/s, angular rad/s
print(robot.odom()) # latest pose estimateDocumentation
- Getting Started — install, run, and drive the robot from Python.
- Developer Documentation — build from source, the full network interface, wire formats, and coordinate conventions.
- Map Editor — design and export occupancy maps in the browser.