ARGoS is a fast multi-robot simulator that can interoperate with Buzz.

To install ARGoS, go to http://www.argos-sim.info/core.php and install a binary package. To get started with ARGoS, refer to the examples.

Compile and install Buzz following the instructions reported in the GitHub page. Make sure to compile Buzz after having installed ARGoS, so the compilation scripts will also compile the ARGoS integration code.

The integration code of Buzz and ARGoS is composed of two elements:

1. A set of ARGoS controllers. At the moment, available controllers include one for the foot-bot (a wheeled robot) and one for the Spiri (a commercial quad-rotor). More can be added easily by subclassing CBuzzController, defined in $PREFIX/include/buzz/argos/buzz_controller.h. $PREFIX is usually /usr or /usr/local.
2. A special definition of ARGoS' QtOpenGL user functions, which allow Buzz scripts to draw in the OpenGL visualization of ARGoS. With these, a developer can write debugging information on top of each robot.

To use ARGoS and Buzz together, you simply need to define your .argos experiment file as usually done with ARGoS.

In this file, instead of a custom controller, use buzz_controller_footbot or buzz_controller_spiri (or both), depending on the robot you intend to use. To activate drawing, use buzz_qt to indicate that you want to use the Buzz QtOpenGL user functions.