Description:
The goal of this project is to build an application to simulate a three-dimentional robot arm. This application will be able to move each part individually or set positions, so that we can animate the movement from one stored position to other position. The whole application will be written in Java using his API Java3D, the VRML models are created using CAD application I-DEAS. This project began as part of the "X-Weeks '03" at the EIA-FR (University of Applied Sciences, Fribourg - Switzerland).
People:
The RoboSim team:
- L.Imhof (GUI Programmer)
- M.Duc (Java3D Programmer)
- L.Bachofen (Robot Mechanical Designer)
here is a screenshot of the application running on Sun's Solaris
License:
This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
For more details click here .
Requirements:
- J2SE SDK -> Java 2 Standard Edition (version >= 1.4.1)
- Java3D API (version >= 1.3.1)
- VRML Java Loader
A running version of Java3D RoboSim can be downloaded here as source collection (tar.gz)
Installation instructions:
The whole installation procedure is referred to a UNIX environment; for MS Windows installation the procedure is the same and can be made using "Explorer".
To decompress "tar.gz " archives under MS Windows use WinZip (version >= 7.0).
Installing J2SE SDK:
- Please read Sun's official documentation
- copy vrml97.jar into $JAVA/jre/lib/ext (where $JAVA is the installation directory of J2SE SDK)
- (e.g.) cp vrml97.jar /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1_03/jre/lib/ext/
- create a new directory named "robosim"
- mkdir robosim
- decompress the archive:
- cd robosim
- gunzip robosim-v2.0_src.tar.gz
- tar -xvf robosim-v2.0_src.tar
- launch the application
- java -jar robosim.jar
- compile the source files:
- javac RoboSim.java
- launch the application
- java RoboSim
CVS Repository:
The entire filesystem of this project can be downloaded via CVS on RoboSim SourceForge.net project website .
For help about CVS (Concurrent Version System) take a look SourceForge.net CVS Begin Guide
Links:
Sun Java Website, contains a lot of useful informations
Sun Java3D Online Slideshow
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