BeamNG MATLAB integration

Overview

We are excited to announce that the highly requested feature of bridging BeamNG.tech and MATLAB is here. MATLAB, with its long history as an academic engineering and mathematical tool, is a programming and numeric computing platform used to analyse data, develop algorithms, and create models. The newly created bridge with MATLAB will enable you to run, control, and interact with the BeamNG.tech simulation. We have integrated five main scripts for your convenience in making use of annotations, bounding boxes, multi-shot camera, object placement, vehicle state plotting and creation of simple scenarios on our East Coast USA map.

Prequest

you must have the following softwares/packages installed:

The BeamNG-MATLAB-integration bridge is depending on BeamNG.Tech and BeamNGpy. Make sure that you have the license for BeamNG.Tech. The Github repository of the BeamNG-MATLAB has some basic examples of scripts that run a vehicle with some sensors ex. Lidar, Camera, and state sensor.

Compatibility

Running the BeamNG ROS integration requires three individual software components, here is a list of compatible versions.

BeamNG.tech	BeamNGpy	BeamNG MATLAB integration	MATLAB	Python
0.27	1.25	0.1.0	R2022b	3.9

1. Setup a compatible python version

After installing the compatible python version with MATLAB, make sure to include the path of excutable python file (exe) in your in “path” variable of “environment variables” as explained here.