Behavior design of a turtlesim using Playful

Turtlesim is a cute 2d simulated turtle famous for being used in ROS tutorials.

Playful is a software for robotic bevahior design.

This repo shows the control of a turtlesim via Playful, for educational purposes.

How to

pre-requisits

ROS and turtlesim must be installed. Any version.

Playful

pip install funcsigs 
pip install playful

Running the demo

• start ROS core

roscore

• in another terminal, start turtlesim

rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node

• in another terminal, clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/vincentberenz/playful_turtlesim.git

• start playful

cd playful_turtlesim
playful execute

(press 'q' to exit)

You should see your turtle chasing any other turtles going close to its home (a virtual point a the bottom of the simulated area).

Check the code

• The playful script that is playful_turtlesim/play/program.py
• This script orchestrate the python code that is in playful_turtlesim/py/turtlesim_play.py

Support

playful-support .a.t. tuebingen.mpg.de

Author

Vincent Berenz, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems