Developing Khepera robot applications in a Webots environment

Author

Wang, L.F. ; Tan, K.C. ; Prahlad, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

Khepera is a high performance mini-robot. Its compact power allows an efficient experimentation using a real robot and applying the basic simulation tools. Webots is a high quality Khepera simulator used in the fields of autonomous systems, intelligent robotics, evolutionary robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The simulation program can be transferred to the real robots easily. The aim of this article is to support the development of Khepera applications in the Webots environment. Starting from the introduction of Khepera robot and its development methodologies, the paper presents and analyses an application example of Khepera robot in the Webots environment. Finally, current applications and future research directions are presented

Keywords

control engineering computing; learning (artificial intelligence); microrobots; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; robot programming; simulation; software agents; software tools; telerobotics; BIOS; Khepera robot applications; Webots environment; autonomous systems; evolutionary robotics; high performance mini-robot; high quality Khepera simulator; intelligent robotics; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; remote control mode; simulation program; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Computer vision; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Learning systems; Machine learning; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micromechatronics and Human Science, 2000. MHS 2000. Proceedings of 2000 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6498-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MHS.2000.903293

Filename

903293