Webots Newsletter [September 2003]

o Reminder: IROS 2003 Webots / Khepera tutorial

A tutorial entitled "Realistic Simulation and Real Mobile Robots" based
on Webots and on the Khepera robots will be held at IROS 2003 in Las
Vegas (USA) on October 31, 2003. This hands-on tutorial will introduce
the audience to the technique of realistic mobile robot simulation with
tranfer to real robots. The tutorial is divided in a theoretical part
(30 minutes) and a hands-on practical part (3.5 hours). More details on
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/IROS2003_tutorial.html
Registration: (student: USD 60, members: USD 100, non-members: USD 150)
http://www.icra-iros.com/iros2003/index.html
Please register as soon as possible so that we can better organize this
event.

o Robot Judo contest running

9 competitors have already submitted judoka robot controllers. Among them,
only 3 are moving steadily and actually fighting for the first position.
Others
are rather defensive, unstable or completely kamikaze... Matches are getting
more and more fun to watch through the Webview application or plugin.
Check http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/contest/index.html for more details.

o Webots 4.0.11 released

This new release contains a Blimp flying robot example, an improved Judo
contest world, BotStudio 2.0.3 for the Hemisson robot, the capability to
export 3D animations in webview format and several bug fixes. You can
download
it from the usual place:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

Please note that the textures of the Blimp example are corrupted in the
Windows version of Webots. You can replace them by correct textures from
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/ftp/blimp_asl2.zip (this will be fixed in
the next
release of Webots).



Best regards,

--
-Olivier Michel
http://www.cyberbotics.com
Phone/Fax: +41 21 693 8624