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

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}
}

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

• Results 2019. Results for the VRX Challenge phases as they arrive.

• September 23, 23:59 PST, Phase 1 - Hello World: Details of the first milestone for VRX.

• October 21, 23:59 PST, Phase 2 - Dress Rehearsal: Details of the rehearsal tasks for VRX.

  • Phase 2 Retrospective and Lessons Learned

• November 22, 23:59 PST, Phase 3 - VRX Challenge: Details of how the VRX Finals will run.

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

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

• RobotX Interactive Preparation: Information to get ready for tutorials and hackathon.
• Tutorial 1: Building Custom RobotX Worlds
• Tutorial 2: Simulating Multiple USVs
• Hackathon - WAMV Command

• 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.