Enki

The fast 2D robot simulator

Stephane Magnenat, Markus Waibel, Antoine Beyeler

Introduction

Enki is an open source robot simulator written in C++. It provides collision and limited physics support for robots evolving on a flat surface. On a contemporary desktop computer, Enki is able to simulate groups of robots hundred times faster than real-time.

Supported robots

This section presents the robots available in the standard distribution, alongside their supported features. Enki is extensible: users can add their own custom robots.

	Khepera IR sensors Linear camera Wheel encoders
	S-bot Omnidirectional camera Light ring Simplified sound communication
	Alice IR sensors IR communication Linear camera
	E-puck (in upcoming version 2.0) IR sensors Bluetooth communication Linear camera Scanner turret Light ring Wheel encoders

License

Enki is free software released under the GNU General Public License version 2. We ask the authors of any publication arising from research using this software to add a reference to it as explained in the documentation.

Download

• Version 2.0: Currently in beta stage, available in the subversion repository on gna (documentation).
  • optionally depends on Qt 4.3 for viewer.
• Version 1.0: libenki-1.0.tar.gz (documentation)
  
  • depends on: liban-1.0.tar.gz (documentation)
  • depends on: libboost (external)

Community

If you want to use or develop Enki, feel free to join the mailing lists.

Development

Enki's development takes place on gna, a server providing subversion, bugtracker and other collaborative facilities for open source projects.

Report bugs

You can report bugs using gna's bug tracker.

Projects using Enki

Enki can be used in the Webots mobile robots simulator to provide fast 2D.

Last update: Stephane Magnenat, 27/08/2007