1. Rules of the competition

The event of simulation competition is set after adjustment based on the content of offline competition. See the rules of each event for details.

2. Events and entries

The simulation competition sets up standard competition C-P and challenge competition C-E, which correspond to offline standard competition and moving block Tower Building Challenge respectively. The simulation competition uses the robot simulation software to build the competition environment. According to different events, the simulation software used by is also different.

The C-P of simulation standard competition  uses webots simulation software, and the robot uses Darwin OP robot. The simulation challenge competition C-E uses the roban robot of Leju company, and the competition simulation software is coppeliasim / vrep.

Competitors can download the competition environment provided by the organizing committee from the simulation competition items on the official website of the competition, and write a program to control the robot to complete the task. After the completion of the task, video recording and code shall be submitted to the organizing committee according to the requirements of the event (the organizing committee shall run and check on the server). The organizing committee will make the ranking regularly, and select the team with excellent performance from the ranking to participate in the final.

During the practice phase, competitors need to download and install simulation software on their personal computers. In the formal competition stage, participants need to submit code to the organizing committee to complete the competition on the designated computer or server.

2.1 simulation standard competition C-P

Simulation software: webots (2020.5 or higher)

Competition environment version: 1.0

Download link: 虚拟标准赛C-P1 竞赛环境1.0.rar

2.2 simulation challenge C-E (block tower challenge)

Simulation software: coppliasim (vrep) edu v3.62 or higher

Competition environment version: 1.0

Robot download link: robot download link: http://www.running-robot.net/download/202.html 

Download link of competition scene: http://www.running-robot.net/download/199.html 

There are two ways to participate in the competition for the teams to choose. Please choose your own way:

2.2.1 independent construction mode

Competitors who know Linux and ROS can install ROS kinetic version and vrep in Ubuntu 16.04 environment by themselves, and download the competition scenario. Refer to vrep simulation environment construction for details.

2.2.2 simulation machine mode

Teams do not need to install their own configuration software, but directly use the configured VirtualBox simulation machine files, which can avoid the tedious installation process. Refer to the simulation machine user guide for details.

The simulation machine file is about 18gb. It is recommended to reserve at least 60GB of disk space and 16GB of computer memory.

3. Software download

3.1 Webots

Open source simulation software webots supports windows, Linux and Mac OS. Official download link: https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots/releases

Webots version update speed is very fast, choose the latest version of webots for your computer system to download and install.

Webots' getting started tutorials, user manuals and reference documents can be found on the official website https://cyberbotics.com/ Check.

3.2 Coppeliasim

Coppeliasim, formerly known as vrep, provides free education for students and robot enthusiasts. It supports windows, Linux and MacOS. Official download link: https://www.coppeliarobotics.com/

This competition uses the Luban robot of Leju company, which needs to be used in cooperation with ROS. It is recommended to install coppeliasim in Ubuntu 16.04. The Windows version of copeliasim can only be used to familiarize yourself with competition scenarios.