Creating & Programming Robots

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Th socket communication allows for an external program to control the robot inside V-REP. The external program is a Python script. We will use for the socket a server/client communication. The server is written in Lua inside a threaded script in V-REP. The client is written in Python, It will :

• connect to the server
• send commands to the robot
• read data from the robot (sensors, status, …)
• disconnect from the server

On the server side of the socket, we use a threaded script in Lua as we want to listen to the client's commands synchronously with the V-REP simulation loop.

We will use a simple 3 wheels robot and we load it in V-REP.