Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 What is Stage?
  • 1.2 How to get Stage and related software
  • 1.3 What's in the Package?
  • 1.4 Requirements
  • 1.5 Ownership
  • 1.6 Bugs and feedback
  • 1.7 What happened to...?
  • 1.8 Citations
  • 1.9 Acknowledgements
  
  
• 2. Running Stage
  • 2.1 Building and Installing Stage
  • 2.2 Running Stage
  • 2.3 The World File
  • 2.4 Command Line Arguments
  • 2.5 Controlling the robots
  • 2.6 Starting and Stopping the clock
  
  
• 3. Using the Stage GUI
  • 3.1 World view
  • 3.2 Menu
  
  
• 4. The World File
  • 4.1 Basic Syntax
  • 4.2 Defining new entity types
  • 4.3 Using include files
  • 4.4 Units
  • 4.5 Examples
  
  
• 5. Entity Reference
  • 5.1 Properties and the type heirarchy
  • 5.2 Object Summary
  • 5.3 Device Summary
  
  
• Bibliography