The Manual

I wrote a manual for people to learn Player/Stage from.

You can download the pdf from this page (along with the code source files). This manual is intended as a supplement to the official manuals, it contains the information you need to know to begin using Player/Stage, and (I hope) explains it in a structured and understandable way.

This site will be used to provide source code and general support to the tutorial document.

Downloads

• The Player/Stage tutorial, using Stage 3.2.2. If you're new to Player/Stage this is most likely the version you need.
  • Source code from the manual: .zip format .tar format
  • NOTE: This version was written in April 2010 and is in need of updating. However, for the most part it is still relevant for Player/Stage version 4. The only major difference between versions 3.2.2 and 4 (for the users) is that the SonarProxy is deprecated and you should use RangerProxy instead.
• The old Player/Stage tutorial covering both Stage 2.1.1 and 3.1.0.
  • Source code from old the manual: .zip format .tar format
• A Makefile for small projects (you'll need to remove the .txt file extension). This makefile has been tested for files with includes stored in other folders, it also works for programmes that are spread across several files. Folder names, file names and include folders will need to be changed according to how you've stored your project.

Useful Links

• Instructions as to how to set up an Eclipse C/C++ IDE for compiling Player/Stage code.
• Instructions for installing Player/Stage on Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot
• This is quite an interesting tutorial about writing Player/Stage drivers from the University of Copenhagen
• PSU Robotics club have a very helpful tutorial on writing a player/stage plugin.
• The Pennsylvania State University's Robotics club wiki in general is also a very useful and well written resource.