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Virtual RobotX (VRX)

This is the entry point for teams participating in the VRX. For programmatic information (registration, rules, technical guide, etc.) see the RobotX VRX forum.

• Note: Updates about the VRX Competition 2022 are coming soon!

Documentation

VRX documents, system requirements and theory of operation for Gazebo plugins.

OCEANS 2019 conference paper, "Toward Maritime Robotic Simulation in Gazebo".

@InProceedings{bingham19toward,
  Title                    = {Toward Maritime Robotic Simulation in Gazebo},
  Author                   = {Brian Bingham and Carlos Aguero and Michael McCarrin and Joseph Klamo and Joshua Malia and Kevin Allen and Tyler Lum and Marshall Rawson and Rumman Waqar},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference},
  Year                     = {2019},
  Address                  = {Seattle, WA},
  Month                    = {October}
}

Tutorials

A set of tutorials to help you get started with VRX.

VRX Competition 2022 Events and Deadlines

• Results 2022. Results for the VRX Challenge phases as they arrive.

• December 2021, Phase 1 - Hello World: The first milestone for VRX.

• March 2022, Phase 2 - Dress Rehearsal: Dry run of VRX competition.

• April 2022 Phase 3 - VRX Competition: The VRX Competition Finals

• Submission process How to submit your solution for an event.

• Download logs How to download your log files after an event.

Additional Resources

• Maritime RobotX Website (General information)
• The VRX issue tracker for submitting and following bugs, feature requests and enhancements
• VRX Software Changelog for brief history of VRX development.
• Docker Development
  • Instructions for Docker image developers.
• Past Events for archived Wiki pages related to previous events involving the VRX platform.