About the Simulator

The FRC Simulator has been in development for over a year. This simulator, created by Ian Graham of the Knights of Alloy will be capable of simulating a FIRST Robotics Competition. The simulator is still in heavy development, but a beta version has been uploaded to the site. It will allow teams to build, wire, program, and drive a virtual robot via keyboard, joystick, or the FRC Operator Interface.

The FRC Simulator requires Windows 2000 or higher with Direct X 9.0c in order to operate.

Features

Completed

• Intro

• Main Menu

• Primitive Operational Robot

• Model of this year's field and game elements

• Fully Integrated physics engine - Newton Physics

• Multiple camera views - Operator, Chase, Camera, Robot, Free

• Registration of the simulator

Planned

• Robot editor to create a fully functional virtual bot

• Wire bot and create virtual electronics (motors, camera, etc.) for it

• Level editor to customize levels for testing the robot

• Simulate converted C code

• Utilization of the FRC OI for controls

• Joystick control

• User accounts with stats

• Advanced terminal window for virtual bot

New Ideas

• Importing of Inventor files

• Simulation of .hex files