'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
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Abstract
Robotics competitions encourage the development of solutions to new challenges that emerge in sync with the rise of Industry 4.0. In this context, robotic simulators are employed to facilitate the development of these solutions by disseminating knowledge in robotics, Education 4.0, and STEM. The RobotAtFactory 4.0 competition arises to promote improvements in industrial challenges related to autonomous robots. The official organization provides the simulation scene of the competition through the open-source SimTwo simulator. This paper aims to integrate the SiwTwo simulator with the Robot Operating System (ROS) middleware by developing a framework. This integration facilitates the design of robotic systems since ROS
has a vast repository of packages that address common problems in robotics. Thus, competitors can use this framework to develop their solutions through ROS, allowing the simulated and real systems to be integrated.This work has been supported by FCT - Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope:
UIDB/05757/2020. The project that gave rise to these
results received the support of a fellowship from ”la
Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is
LCF/BQ/DI20/11780028.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
