The Simulation Tutorials provide help for getting started with using the Visual Simulation Environment (VSE). The Simulation Overview provides a general overview of the Simulation Runtime and some of its features and design.

VSE requires a graphics card that supports DirectX9 with shader model 2.0 or greater.

The tutorials may be available in multiple programming languages. Please check the available languages in the table of contents and select the one that fits.

The Simulation Tutorials are organized into three categories which reflect their level of complexity: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. You should work through them in this order if you are new to the Simulator.

Beginner

• Simulation Introduction
• Empty Simulation Project
• Editor Overview - NOTE: This feature is not available in the Express Edition.
• Simulated Robot

Intermediate

• Custom Simulated Entities
• Simulated Apartment Scene

Advanced

• Multiple Simulated Sensors
• Multiple Simulated Robots
• Simulated Articulated Entities

Note that the Simulation Tutorials 1 to 6 which were available in RDS 2008 have been superseded by this new set of tutorials. The new tutorials explain more functionality as well as using the new simulated sensors.