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Erebus is a robot rescue simulation competition environment in which you must develop a controller for a robot to explore a maze and use sensing methods to find as many 'victims' whilst avoid obstacles and traps.
It is built on the Webots, a robotic simulation platform designed for a professional use and has been widely used in industry, education and research. Cyberbotics maintains Webots as its main product continuously since 1998. Here is a link to Webots official User Guide. On this site we present documentation as well as tutorials and guides for using the Erebus simulator.
The latest release can be found here. This was updated on 18th August 2020 and superseeds any previous version. This can be downloaded and installed on top of previous versions.
We will be hosting the first international, online competition in October 2020. Teams should work on their programs, and then submit these to be test against others around the world on an unseen map.
| Action | Deadline |
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| Competition Date, will be streamed online | 4th October 2020 12:00:00 UTC |
| Deadline for submitting your programs | 25th September 2020 23:59:59 UTC |
| Completion of registration of interest here | 18th September 2020 23:59:59 UTC |
*Please do try to fill in the registration of interest form if you can.
- Any questions, please get in touch!
We have a number of tutorials which aim to allow you to develop a basic program and assume no prior knowledge. These include both video tutorials and text based tutorials with example code. However, the tutorials are based on Release 3 which is slightly different to the most recent release. If there are any queries do not hesitate to ask us through discord (link at the bottom of this page).
- Download and installing:
- Tutorial 1: Introduction, installation and getting started with basic movement
- Tutorial 2: Sensing, and victim detection
- Tutorial 3: More advanced navigation & sensing.
- C/C++ Tutorial
If you need help/assistance (however small!) please do get in touch; there are a number of ways to do this.
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Discord. Ask questions, get rapid response and discuss with other participants Join: https://discord.com/invite/6FJxZxk
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RCJ Forum. Ask questions regarding the rules or infrastructure https://junior.forum.robocup.org/
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Contact us directly at: erebusrescuemaze@gmail.com
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You can join the RoboCupJunior mailing list to receive notifications and up to date information not only about this competition but about the league.
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The RoboCupJunior Rescue League competition website