A synthetic mobile robot

Author

Erard, Pierre-Jean ; Fuhrer, Claude ; Iff, Laurent

Author_Institution

Inst. d´´Inf. et Intelligence Artificielle, Neuchatel Univ., Switzerland

fYear

1995

fDate

19-21 Apr 1995

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

34

Abstract

This paper presents a project who´s goal is to make an animation simulating the activity of a mobile robot in a given environment. A parallel is drawn between animation and reactive programming, particularly with the concept of autonomous agent. The realised animation consists of a virtual world, the environment of the robot and the robot itself, as an agent acting in this world. The turning point of the project is the simulation of the sensors through which the simulated robot is supposed to see its environment. To implement this task, advanced techniques are used such as ray tracing and radiosity. An experimentation platform is designed based on the robot Nomad 200 and its simulator, with adjunction of interfaces for the virtual sensors and for the representation on the computer screen

Keywords

computer animation; digital simulation; mobile robots; autonomous agent; computer screen; mobile robot simulation animation; radiosity; ray tracing; reactive programming; robot Nomad 200; virtual sensors; virtual world; Animation; Autonomous agents; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Mobile robots; Parallel programming; Ray tracing; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Turning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation '95., Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7062-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.1995.393551

Filename

393551