6.1. VulcanAI with TurtleSim

Note

VulcanAI is currently in active development, and new features and improvements are being added regularly. Current version is in Beta stage.

VulcanAI can be easily adapted to control the popular TurtleSim simulator, which is often used for educational purposes in the ROS 2 community. The popularity of this simulator makes it an excellent choice for demonstrating the capabilities of VulcanAI in a ROS 2 environment. This tutorial guides you through the steps to set up and use VulcanAI to control TurtleSim and accomplish complex tasks from natural language instructions, demonstrating its capabilities in a simple yet effective manner. At the end of this set of tutorials you will have learned:

• How to use most of VulcanAI’s features.

• How to create custom VulcanAI tools, adapted to a ROS 2 environment using TurtleSim as an example.

• How to use VulcanAI to control TurtleSim through the VulcanAI console.

At the end of this set of tutorials, you will be able to achieve the following behaviors found in the next video:

Start the tutorial by following the next steps:

• 6.1.1. Requisites
• 6.1.2. Tools for Turtlesim
• 6.1.3. VulcanAI Console and manager
• 6.1.4. Using VulcanAI to control TurtleSim