Cyberbotics Ltd. develops Webots, a mobile robotics simulation software that provides you with a rapid prototyping environment for modelling, programming and simulating mobile robots. The provided robot libraries enable you to transfer your control programs to several commercially available real mobile robots. Webots lets you define and modify a complete mobile robotics setup, even several diff...

This paper presents some of the capabilities ofWebots-a robotics simulation software. Using Webots as the development environment one can obtain model, program as well as simulate robots. First, key features and components of Webots are described and then it is presented how to construct a model of robotic system in it. Then, a control system is designed based on mathematical model of robot sys...

Development of various robotic algorithms can be supported with the aid of robot simulation programs. We present the Webots mobile robot simulator and its applicability to handle machine-learning methods. Furthermore, we show advantages and disadvantages of different navigation paradigms. We focus our investigation on metric navigation and especially on the creation and the usage of occupancy g...

This article introduces a new software tool that provides an accurate simulation of Sony Aibo robots and the capability to transfer controller programs from the simulation to the real robot. Five components are described: (1) a simulated physics-based model of the Sony Aibo ERS-210(A) and ERS-7 quadruped robots; (2) a graphical user interface for controlling the simulated and real robots; (3) a...

Mobile robotics and robot navigation is a growing area of scientific research. Robot simulators are useful designing and analizing tools of this domain. Webots ([1]) is a well-known representant of these programs, a three-dimensional mobile robot simulator. Various guidance principles can be developed in C/C++ or Java programming language with the use of Webots controller programs. In this pape...

This paper includes a review of three physics simulation packages that can be used to provide researchers with a virtual ground for modeling, implementing and simulating complex models, as well as testing their control methods with less cost and time of development. The inverted pendulum model was used as a test bed for comparing ODE, DANCE and Webots, while Linear State Feedback was used to co...

Simulation platforms are critical and indispensable tools for application developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) because the UAVs generally costly, have certain requirements test environment, need professional licensed operators. Thus, developers prefer (or have) to their applications on simulation before implementing them real machines. In past decades, a considerable number robots be...