01: Line-Following Robot in V-Rep / CoppeliaSim | Tutorial

This video shows the step-by-step implementation of modelling a line following robot using  the Virtual Robotics Experimentation Platform (V-REP / CoppeliaSim) simulator, which can be downloaded for free at http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/. The line following robot uses Ackermann steering and uses 3 light sensors to follow a line.

Please download the required files at (note, the file has been updated for a newer V-REP version and may not look the same as in the video):
http://www.edisondev.net/VREP/01LineF...

The contents are covered include:

00:00 - Introduction
00:43 - Generating a path for your robot to follow
10:25 - Vision sensors addition to your model
22:02 - Graphing vision/light sensor data
27:16 - Vision sensor measurement use in the script
37:59 - Orthographic vs projective vision sensors
41:46 - BONUS: Final Line Following Robot

You can download the sample model that I use as part of the tutorial at: http://ubcomechatronics.com/dralgorit...

I apologize for any mistakes that I made in the video as I am still new to V-REP. There may be better/easier ways of implementing these concepts.

The V-REP manual has some excellent step-by-step tutorials and is available at:http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/helpF...

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