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Running Revolve

Now that we installed revolve, we need to try running it

Watch Robot

The wiki suggests running the command: 

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./revolve.py --simulator-cmd=gazebo --manager watch_robot.py

this should run Gazebo, but it will ultimately crash, as the robot it tries to load is incompatible. Therefore we need a robot YAML file that does not break our simulation, this can be done in several ways.

Getting Morphologies

Either generating new morphologies by running a command like: 

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./revolve.py --simulator-cmd=gazebo --manager=experiments/EC_students/manager_population_cppn.py

Which is an example code from the ec_research_2021 branch, once complete this will have generated many working morphologies in the Revolve-EC/experiments/EC_students/data/default_experiment/1/data_fullevolution/phenotypes directory.

Note

Successfully running the above command is already a sign of a functional installation

Download Morphology

Alternatively, you can download a working morphology that I used by clicking here. This will download a zip file, unzip to find a folder containing a working morphology tardigrade.yaml

Watch Robot (Attempt 2)

The working morphology should be added to the Revolve-EC main directory.

We then open up the watch_robot.py file: 

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code watch_robot.py

We need to change the line path = "phenotype_2870.yaml" to path = "tardigrade.yaml" (line 54) in the case you downloaded my file, otherwise use the right name for your robot.

Running: 

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./revolve.py --simulator-cmd=gazebo --manager watch_robot.py

should now yield something that looks like: Revolve

This signals a successful installation.

Installing Revolve & this tutorial is done