Robotics With V-REP / CoppeliaSim

Explore the V-REP / CoppeliaSim environment by building and manipulating a scene, loading .ttt files, and using mouse controls to rotate, zoom, and drag objects.

Add objects using primitive shapes, adjust color and opacity, and explore geometry and proportional scaling. Learn dynamic properties like center of gravity, weight, and ground interaction for robotics simulations.

Learn how to use layers in V-REP and CoppeliaSim to control visibility of objects, toggle between first and second layers, and add a revolute joint to construct modular robot components.

Compare Lua with Python and C++ for robotics simulation, highlighting Lua data types, numbers, strings, lists, and key syntax differences for v-rep scripting.

Learn to animate a revolute joint in V-REP and CoppeliaSim by obtaining the joint object handle, configuring target velocity in velocity mode, and linking coding with electronics to drive motion.

The lecture demonstrates coding a prismatic joint in v-REP using the set joint position function. It covers dynamic properties and how two attached bodies react when dynamics are enabled.

Learn how to add and configure a proximity sensor in V-REP / CoppeliaSim, visualize distance data with a graph, and script detection to record measurements from ultrasonic or infrared sensors.

Explore the vision sensor in V-Rep, covering single line pointed and orthographic types, rendering with OpenGL image processing mode, and reading RGB data values from the scene.

import a differential drive robot design from cad software into v-rep, export parts as stl or obj, adjust units from mm to meters, assemble and align wheels, and color components.

Convert complex meshes into simple shapes such as cylinders and cuboids to ease physics simulations in v-rep, using layers, shape edit mode, and visible-invisible toggling with physical properties.

Set up the robot hierarchy by placing revolute joints, grouping rigid components, and locking motor speed so the assembled robot remains rigid, with velocity kept at zero.

Code a mobile robot by setting target velocities on right and left revolute motor joints; learn how velocity differences create straight motion or rotation around the center.

Learn to create and edit a segmented path for a line-following robot in V-REP by adding, copying, pasting, moving, and deleting points, closing the path, and adjusting height and orientation.

Learn to build a line-following object in v-rep by adding a cuboid and using sim.followPath with position, orientation, velocity, and acceleration; disable dynamic properties to move along the path.

Learn to build a line-following drone by using a quadcopter that follows a colored ball along a line, tweak velocity, and implement obstacle avoidance with code and path editing.

Master forward and inverse kinematics for a robot arm by examining translation and rotation frames, transformation matrices, and denavit heisenberg notation from base to end effector.

Enable inverse kinematics mode in V-REP to compute joint angles that move end effector tip to a target, using a dummy, with hybrid mode for dynamics and notes on singularities.

Learn to make a painting robot reach a target point using inverse kinematics in V-REP CoppeliaSim, by configuring the base reference, target orientation, and joint states.

Learn to import the tool using the model browser, adjust size and color, and place it within the robot scene using get object handle and hierarchy.

Explain how a prismatic joint drives a robot painting from start to end, using i as joint position and j as timing, with 2-second intervals and printed i values.

Learn to move the robot tip to a target point using RML in V-REP, calculating position and orientation relative to the robot base, with a reusable function.

Add a suction pad in v-rep/coppeliaSim and use its active parameter to hold or release a cuboid, with the script accessing the pad and linking it into the scene hierarchy.