Rossum's Playhouse robot simulator (http://rossum.sourceforge.net/)

Interacting with the Demo's(http://rossum.sourceforge.net/)

	The illustration at the left shows the Floor Plan for the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest. The Server (simulator) reads the floor plan at start up. By default, the Server runs with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you are running time trials or wish to treat the Server as a background process, you can suppress the GUI by adjusting options in the RP1 properties file (see the Users's Guide for more details.) The simulated robot in the lower-left section of the display was uploaded by the client application when it connected to the Server. Although the Server provides a virtual world, the inhabitants of that world are provided by the client applications. The red circle with the letter "F" indicates the target, a candle representing the fire which the robot contestant is to extinguish. The green "homeplate" represents the home placement, the robot's starting position.