A component-based hybrid testbed for multi-mobile robots

Author

Jinhui, Zhu ; Qilun, Zheng ; Yingju, Liang ; Mingjie, Liang ; Huaqing, Min

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

22-24 June 2009

Firstpage

905

Lastpage

909

Abstract

Functionality debugging and performance evaluation of robotics system has always been a challenge, particularly in the case of multi-robot system. The process is tedious, time consuming, costly, or even dangerous. This paper describes a component-based hybrid testbed for multi-mobile robots. On the testbed, real and virtual robots operate together in an augmented reality environment. The simulation server and robot software clients are built by assembling different kinds of components. The software for virtual robots can be easily transplanted to control real robots. The proposed testbed is applied to Robocup middle size league soccer game. Experiments show the tesbed is flexible and suitable for multi-mobile robots.

Keywords

augmented reality; control engineering computing; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; program debugging; software performance evaluation; Robocup middle size league soccer game; augmented reality environment; component-based hybrid testbed; functionality debugging; multimobile robots; multirobot system; performance evaluation; robot software clients; simulation server; virtual robots; Actuators; Augmented reality; Computational modeling; Debugging; Hardware; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; System testing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation, 2009. ICIA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhuhai, Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3607-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3608-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICINFA.2009.5205047

Filename

5205047