Utilizing middleware to interface with the simulation environment for autonomous robots

The Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots (SEAR) has been updated to include new sensors that are more usable and customizable than in previous iterations. The simulator is now also fully integrated into robotics middleware MyRobotLab (MRL) allowing users to access other external libraries and use multiple programming languages to set up and control a simulation. SEAR interfaces with user code in the same way as actual hardware so the only changes required for the user to migrate code to actual hardware is by changing serial port addresses.