VirtualRobot is a freeware software suite, in the sense that includes several programs, developed in C++ by DISA-UPV Robotics Group for robotics application, research and education, with a graphical representation based on OpenGL under Microsoft Windows (2k/NT/9x) operating systems. Its beginning, on 1998, was motivated by the need of a remote graphical application for programming, monitoring and simulating multi-robot cells on the control system GENERIS (Generalised Software Control System for Industrial Robots) developed by European Commission Joint Research Centre. Its open software architecture design allows, i.e., kinematics modules to be ported to GENERIS control system.
(VRS) is the main platform for simulation, and includes some components (a set of adaptable Dynamic Link Libraries) and external applications (VRS Tools, VRM Tools and VRS Demos) as well as documentation.
VRS includes several demos. To play them, you must run the Demos programs, placed in the File menu, option Demos, as shown in the figure:
Download program
Please, remove previous versions of VirtualRobot Simulator from your computer, download the following zip (or rar) file, unzip (or unrar) in your computer and execute the setup.exe file.
Download VRS 6.6 Beta version November 2004 (ZIP version, 65.713KB)
Robots make computer science more fun. VEXcode VR is an easy to use platform that allows you to code a virtual robot using either Block-based coding environment powered by Scratch Blocks, or a custom developed Text-based Python interface. VEXcode VR is based on VEXcode, the same programming environment used for VEX 123, GO, IQ and V5 robots. Select Target Platform Click on the green buttons that describe your target platform. Only supported platforms will be shown. By downloading and using the software, you agree to fully comply with the terms and conditions of the CUDA EULA. Operating System Architecture Compilation Distribution Version Installer Type Do you want to cross-compile? Yes No Select Host Platform Click on the green. Multiple robots would be nice. I know it is posible in a more complex simulation, but for fast and easy visualisation it would be great in the robot visualisation tool. Just plot more robots, additional it would be great to inklude the outer dimentions of the robot in the plot (as a box, or circle) and additional y-axes.
Download VRS 6.6 Beta version November 2004 (RAR version, 64.053KB)
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Update VirtualRobot to VRS 6.7 (Nov2007):
After installation, download this VRS67 zip file and replace the three included files of the old version in:
- VRS.exe in VirtualRobot directory
- VRMEditor,exe in ApplicationsVRMTools directory
- Vreal.ini in Windows directory
If after installation, VRS is not working, probably you will require installing MFCs (as explained in readme.txt file).
O. Sapena, E. Onaindía, M. Mellado, C. Correcher & E. Vendrell.
Reactive Planning Simulation in Dynamic Environments with VirtualRobot.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2004 ISBN: 3-540-22007-0
The 17th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems. May 17-20, 2004, Ottawa, Canada
Paper (pdf), 147KBM. Mellado, C. Correcher, J.V. Catret & D. Puig.
VirtualRobot: An open general-purpose simulation tool for Robotics.
The 2003 European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2003), EUROSIS, Naples, Italy.
October 2003.
Paper (pdf), 2.185KBM. Mellado, J.V. Catret, D. Puig, E. Vendrell.
Sistema Remoto de Programación, Simulación y Monitorización de Robots.
Simposio de Ingeniería Eléctrica (SIE 2001), Santa Clara, Cuba.
Mayo 2001.
Paper (pdf), 369KB Poster (pdf), 565KBR. Zotovic, M. Mellado, V. Jornet, J.V. Catret & D. Puig.
Diseño, Implementación y Control de un Sistema Háptico con Realimentación Sensorial en Tele-Robótica.
2º Congreso Int. Interacción Persona-Ordenador (Interacción’2001), Salamanca, España.
Mayo 2001.
Paper (pdf), 247KB Poster (pdf), 5.666KBM. Mellado, J.V. Catret & D. Puig.
Dispositivos de Entrada de Datos 3D en Tele-Robótica.
2º Congreso Int. Interacción Persona-Ordenador (Interacción’2001), Salamanca, España.
Mayo 2001.
Paper (pdf), 86KB Poster (pdf), 432KBD. Puig, M. Mellado, J.V. Catret & E. Ruiz.
Robot Kinematics Development Environment: Application to a Configurable Redundant Manipulator for Heavy Robotics.
5th World WSES/IEEE Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers (CSCC 2001), Creta, Greece.
July 2001.
Paper (pdf), 2.008KBJ.V. Catret, M. Mellado & D. Puig,
Open Graphics System for 3D-Mapping Validation on Robotics.
8th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’2001)¸ Valetta Malta.
September 2001.
Paper (pdf), 490KB Poster (pdf), 1.736KB
Please note file size
Industrial robots manipulators:
Arc Welding (3120Kb)
Spot Welding (932Kb)
Machine Load (596Kb)
Assembly Line (1608Kb)
Card Board Holing (596Kb)
Bottle Packing (Compressed version) (1248Kb)
Heavy redundant robot Rialto-Gaer (35Mb)
Heavy redundant robot Rialto-APM (46Mb)
Wheel Assembly (101Mb)
Bottle Packing (Full version) (152Mb)
Letter Drilling (197Mb)
Mobile Robots:
Bike (268Kb)
Riv (984Kb)
Nomad On a Maze (Compressed version) (1346Kb)
Mail Delivery (2166Kb)
Nomad (164Mb)
Nomad On a Maze (Full version) (78Mb)
Yair (33Mb)
Walking Robots:
Silo4 (824Kb)
FREESUB Research Training Network funded by the European Commission under the Human Potential Programme has decided to use VirtualRobot as the common software platform for Underwater Robot Simulation. In this way, a VirtualRobot Workshop was organized at the Joint Research Centre (Ispra) (see October 2003 Newsletter of the FREESUB network) and a work meeting on Simulator Integration was organized at Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, CEA (see February 2004 Newsletter of the FREESUB network). The following paper shows the use of VirtualRobot within the network.
M. Badica, F. Schramm, P. Gravez, P. Weiss & J.V. Catret.
An architecture for supervising the telemanipulation of an IAUV-mounted robotic arm.
International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC), Zakopane, Poland.
May, 2004.
Paper (pdf), 210KB Poster (pdf), 547KB
An on-line English documentation (for VRS version 6.01) is now available.
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