Scope of this tutorial

This tutorial will teach you how to include and simulate two brain-controlled robots. You will implement two basic behaviors; namely, color recognition and obstacle avoidance.

1. Launch the Platform.

2. Learn how to connect brains and bodies: live edits in Brain and Transfer Function Editor

3. Do it yourself: design the control of a 3rd robot in the scene

Get started

This tutorial is actually documented in an iPython Notebook script. Let us first get it running.

Be sure to have an up-to-date Platform

cd $HBP/user-scripts
./update_nrp update all

Open the notebook multi_robots_tutorial.ipynb

• Go to your experiment folder and run the script

cd $HBP/Experiments/multiple_robots_tutorial
ipython notebook multiple_robots_tutorial.ipynb

• If you miss ipython notebook, install it

sudo apt-get install ipython-notebook

You should have now a new browser window with the following view

The tutorial continues in this window. Have fun!