A ROS Based Open Source Simulation Environment for Robotics Beginners

Abstract

This paper presents an open source robot simulation environment based on the robot operating system (ROS). To help novice to learn robotics, we have designed several important experiments that most robotics beginners will need to practice. Our simulation environment provides an efficient, safe, and transferable testing and operating environment for the rapid verification of robot algorithms. Through practicing the experiments in this paper, robotics beginners can learn robotics knowledge faster, better and at a lower cost, which should great facilitate them to operate robots in real-world applications. Source code, simulation video and detailed wiki for the simulation environment are available online at https://github.com/Suyixiu/robot_sim.