Help with getting started with thesis in partially/fully occluded grasping

Hey everyone!

I’m working on my thesis involving Reinforcement Learning/Deep Learning in robotics. The goal is to train a robot arm to pick out a specific object from a pile (partially/fully occluded) and compare different methods for how well they handle the task.

Right now, I’m trying to set up CoppeliaSim on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but it’s giving me all kinds of trouble. Do you recommend sticking with CoppeliaSim for this, or is there a better alternative? Also, are there any solid tutorials/resources for managing this setup? Would it be easier to just switch to Windows for this?

If anyone here has done something similar or has advice, I’d really appreciate your help! 🙏

P.S. I don't need any real robot implementation, I just need simulation