Description
As the name indicates QUTe is a simulator for mobile robots that move on a flat surface (on the flor or on a table). The current version simulates the Khepera II robots from K-Team. The simulated Khepera robot corresponds to the Khepera II base and can be optionally equipped with a K213 linear camera turret (Visit the K-Team website at www.k-team.com for technical specification of the Khepera robot base and the K213 camera). The QUTe robot simulator is tool for exploring autonomous behaviours.
The simulator provides a 2D top view of the robots and the environment. Any number of robots can be simulated simultaneously, each executing its own behaviour. Several simulated objects can be placed in robot’s environment; these are cylinders, rectangles (blocks and walls), pillars (unmovale cylinders), tennis balls and fingers (cylindrical object moved by the mouse that can objects in the environment including the robot. The simulator can be used to play simulated robot soccer.,
QUTe runs on the Squeak open source implementation of Smalltalk. All the code of the simulator, and the Squeak system, can be inspected and modified. The simulator can be extended quite easily to simulate other mobile robots.