Virtual Ocean Robotics Challenge (VORC)

This repository is the home to the source code and software documentation for the Virtual Ocean Robotics Challenge. Challenge documentation is available on the project wiki, including links to the public website and documentation of the tasks and technical specifications.

This is an active development project. We are adding and improving things all the time. The project contains a simulation foundation, including a maritime environment and description of the platform. It is intended as a first step for teams entering into maritime competitions.

Getting Started

• Watch the Release 1.0 Highlight Video
• The VORC Wiki provides documentation and tutorials.
• Use community.gazebosim.org for general-purpose discussions about VORC.
• This project relies on other projects. Gazebo, ROS and VRX are project dependencies.
• The instructions assume a basic familiarity with the ROS environment and Gazebo. If these tools are new to you, we recommend starting with the excellent ROS Tutorials
• For technical problems, please us the project issue tracker to describe your problem or request support.

Reference

If you use the VORC/VRX simulation in your work, please cite our summary publication, 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}
}

Contributing

We are starting simple with the important fundamental aspects of the robot and environment, but will rely on the community to develop additional functionality around their particular use cases.

If you have any questions about these topics, or would like to work on other aspects, please contribute. You can contact us directly (see below), submit an issue or, better yet, submit a pull request!

Contacts

• Carlos Aguero [email protected]
• Brian Bingham [email protected]