Webots Automarker

[dennuguyen]

Hi, I'm a TA for a university course that is using Webots as teaching tool to get students started with robotics. As such, we do design some assignments using Webots and which are manually marked. This is tedious for a course with a few hundred students. Are there any automarking solutions that could be integrated with Webots? I.e. my use case would be:

• Students submit controller files.
• Able to mark a few hundred students' controllers automatically.
• Able to write test cases to check if an event has occurred e.g. robot has moved to a position or a message has been outputted to some stream.
• Handle tests crashing.
• Can collate marking results with info about each test case and the total test result.

[dennuguyen]

Ended up writing a Python script which runs Webots in a subprocess, and a supervisor controller to create trajectory paths for the robots and export an image.