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Overview
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Webots is a development environment used to
model, program and simulate mobile robots.
With Webots the user can design complex
robotic setups, with one or several, similar or
different robots, in a shared environment. The
properties of each object, such as shape, color,
texture, mass, friction, etc., are chosen by the
user. A large choice of simulated sensors and
actuators is available to equip each robot. The
robot controllers can be programmed with the
built-in IDE or with third party development
environments. The robot behavior can be tested in
physically realistic worlds. The controller
programs can optionally be transferred to
commercially available real robots.
Webots is used by over 650 universities and
research centers worldwide. With Webots, you
take advantage of a proven technology that has
been codeveloped by the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne, thoroughly tested,
well documented and continuously maintained
for over 10 years. The development time you save
is enormous!
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Commercial brochure
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Webots commercial brochure is available as a PDF file.
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Licenses
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Webots comes with two different flavors: Webots PRO is more powerful and intended for research use whereas Webots EDU is less powerful but cheaper for educational use.
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Floating licenses are available as an option. They allow any computer on your local network to use Webots without the need for a dongle on every computer. Only the computer running the Webots floating license server needs a dongle. This computer takes care that the total number of simultaneous running instances of Webots doesn't exceed the number of floating licenses you purchased. The technical information about the Webots floating license server is available here. It can be installed on either Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.
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Philosophy behind Webots
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Mobile robotics is a complex research area in which many advanced
technologies and open research issues are combined all together. Technologies
include electronics, mechanics, computer hardware and software. It is often
difficult to master perfectly every technology, and hence mobile robotics
projects require an important investment. Realistic simulations and fast
prototyping of mobile robots help reducing the amount of time and hardware
spent in developing mobile robotics applications. Moreover, such software
tools allow researchers and students to focus on the most interesting parts of
their robotics projects and hence achieve more advanced results.
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Scientific publications
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2008: Michel, O., Rohrer F. and Bourquin Y. Rat's Life: A Cognitive Robotics Benchmark.
European Robotics Symposium 2008 (EUROS'08). Springer. Vol. 44, 223-232, 2008.
2008: Michel, O., Bourquin, Y. and Baillie, J.-C. RobotStadium: Online Humanoid Robot Soccer
Simulation Competition. Workshop on Experimental Methodology and Benchmarking in Robotics Research,
RSS conference, Zürich, Switzerland, 2008.
2004: Michel, O. Webots: Professional Mobile Robot Simulation, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 1, Num. 1, pages 39-42.
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