Danielle S. Nasrallah, eng., Ph.D.
Angelo A. Chrabieh, eng.
Georges H. Haddad, eng.

• Figure 1: Content of the Windows Host PC

• Figure 2: Content of the folder “Robotics Courseware Setup”

• Figure 3: Oracle VM virtualbox installation wizard

• Figure 4: Selection of the “Network and Sharing Center”

• Figure 5: Selection of the “Change adaper settings”

• Figure 6: Selection of the “Virtual Host-Only Network”

• Figure 7: Clicking on button “Properties”

• Figure 8: Assignation of the static IP address for the Host computer

• Figure 9: Checking the static IP address of the Host computer using Command Prompt

• Figure 10: Import of the folder “RoboticsVirtualLabDDF” to ‘C:’

• Figure 11: Content of the folder “RoboticsVirtualLabDDF”.

• Figure 12: Localization of the field 'addrframework'

• Figure 13: RT-LAB installation wizard.

• Figure 14: Location of the executable file machine_id.exe.

• Figure 15: Localization of localhost

• Figure 16: Deployment of target: localhost

• Figure 17: Installation and activation of the license.

• Figure 18: Content of the folder “Precompiled_RTLAB_Projects”.

• Figure 19: Importing a RT-LAB project

• Figure 20: Importing an existing RT-LAB project

• Figure 21: Browsing to retrieve the RT-LAB project

• Figure 22: Selection of a specific RT-LAB project “RoboticsCourseware_WMRMWP” in this case.

• Figure 23: Localization of the executable “OrchestraExtCommIP”.

• Figure 24: View of the Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager

• Figure 25: Import of Appliance in VirtualBox.

• Figure 26: Browsing an OVA file to import

• Figure 27: Selection and import of Robotics-LAB in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager

• Figure 28: Appropriate selection in Additional Options.

• Figure 29: View of the imported Robotics-LAB virtual machine in Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager

• Figure 30: Modification of the settings of the Robotics-LAB virtual machine.

• Figure 31: Assignation of NAT to Network Adapter 1.

• Figure 32: Assignation of Host-only Adapter to Network Adapter 2.

• Figure 33: Login view of the Robotics-LAB virtual machine.

• Figure 34: Entering the settings of the Robotics-LAB virtual machine.

• Figure 35: Accessing the Network from inside the Robotics-LAB virtual machine.

• Figure 36: Assignation of the static IP address for the Guest computer

• Figure 37: Restarting the Robotics-LAB virtual machine.

• Figure 38: Checking the static IP address of the Guest computer using Terminal

• Figure 39: Host computer pinging Guest

• Figure 40: Guest computer pinging Host

• Figure 41: “Home” folder  – Linux Machine.

• Figure 42: Robotics Virtual Laboratory Icon.

• Figure 43: Robotics Virtual Laboratory GUI

• Figure 44: IP Address Issue Message

• Figure 45: Apply the Host custom IP address

• Figure 46: Changing the IP address in the DDF files

The objective of this document is to explain how to install and run the Robotics Virtual Laboratory on a Windows PC.

Before you start make sure that your Windows PC has the following:

• 100 GB hard disk space and

• 32 GB RAM.

The Windows PC will be called Host computer, all over the document, and will contain the following:

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Figure 1: Content of the Windows Host PC

1. The set of RT-LAB / Orchestra projects and associated DDF files to be described thoroughly in Section 1.

2. A Linux/Ubuntu virtual machine, called Guest computer, containing the dynamics engine Gazebo used to simulate (i) the dynamics of the robots and (ii) the sensors described in Section 2.

Notice that all the items required for the installation of the Robotics virtual laboratory are delivered in one single folder entitled “Robotics Courseware Setup” as follows:

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Figure 2: Content of the folder “Robotics Courseware Setup”

Start by downloading all the content of this folder to your computer prior to installation.

• Install the virtualization tool Oracle VM Virtualbox : “VirtualBox-6.1.32-149290-Win.exe” as follows:

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Figure 3: Oracle VM virtualbox installation wizard

• When you install Oracle VM VirtualBox, it will also create a virtual network adapter on your system. This adapter enables communication between your Host and Guest computers.