If you don't have a real robot but want to test this library, please follow the instructions.
Extract the archive (with 7Zip for example)
Download latest version of Virtual Box : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.
Install VirtualBox and ensure that you checked all network features in the installer, as shown here :
Change your VirtualBox Host-Only Network IP address to a static IP like 192.168.0.10
Open Oracle VM Virtualbox, press CTRL+A (or Machine menu / Add...) and select the downloaded URSim_VIRTUAL-x.x.x.xxxxx.vbox
file.
Open Configuration, go to network and attach to Host only Adapter
(Réseau privé hôte
in french) named Virtualbox Host-only Ethernet Adapter
and press OK.
Start the virtual machine and Lubuntu should boot.
Change Lubuntu IP Address
Click Start menu / Run and execute command sudo leafpad /etc/network/interfaces
to edit interfaces file.
Change the content of interfaces file to assign static IP 192.168.0.56 with the following configuration :
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.56
network 192.168.0.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
Restart Lubuntu by clicking Start menu / Logout / Reboot
When VM is restarted, launch the URSim version of your choice (UR3, UR5, UR10 or UR16)
The first time you launch URSim you should click on "Confirm Safety" popup button.
You can then enjoy the Windows Forms Example by connecting to 192.168.0.56
Please refer to the following Universal Robots support tutorial for setting DHCP :