This tutorial describes how to:
- Install CloudSim
- Start/stop CloudSim on the cloud
- You will need a valid AWS account, and its associated key (and secret key). See AWS account and keys: How to get an Amazon AWS account and set it up for CloudSim. The key and secret key pair are tokens that allow CloudSim to access AWS on behalf of the AWS user.*
- For the purpose of authentication and loging in CloudSim, every CloudSim user must have a valid gmail (or Google Apps) accounts. So all users (including users with administrative privileges) must have a valid Google account to use CloudSim. You can get Google accounts for free.
Introduction
CloudSim is a web app that runs in a virtual machine on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It allows users to launch, terminate and monitor virtual machines in the AWS cloud running ROS, Gazebo and the DRC simulator. Different configurations can be launched, depending on the computing power needed, simulation and robotics software requirements, and available machines on the cloud. Each CloudSim configuration maps to a constellation, which are collections of multiple virtual machines running together.
Get ready to download
If you'd like the full source, you can check it out from our BitBucket repository, or clone it with this command:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/cloudsim
Want to contribute? Fork the Gazebo repository, and learn more about contributing.