Improving and designing sensors for the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots (SEAR)

Author

Harris, Adam C. ; Conrad, James M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Several new developments have been integrated into the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots (SEAR), which is a newly developed platform agnostic three-dimensional robotics simulator. The range sensors, which have previously been validated against actual hardware [1] were improved to enable full 3D capabilities and a new class of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) class has been added. The compass sensor was improved to include magnetic declination calculations when given the robot´s latitude and longitude. External communications is now handled via TCP and UDP messages shared with an external program users can utilize to set up and control robotics simulations.

Keywords

control engineering computing; digital simulation; middleware; mobile robots; operating systems (computers); optical radar; sensors; 3D capabilities; Java; LIDAR; SEAR; TCP messages; UDP messages; compass sensor; control robotics simulations; light detection-and-ranging class; magnetic declination calculations; middleware; platform agnostic 3D robotics simulator; robot latitude; robot longitude; robot operating system; sensor design; sensor improvement; simulation environment-for-autonomous robots; Compass; Laser radar; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Robot sensing systems; Environment; Java; LIDAR; Middleware; MyRobotLab; ROS; Robot Operating System; Robotics; Simulation; Simulator; Ultrasonic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon, 2013 Proceedings of IEEE

Conference_Location

Jacksonville, FL

ISSN

1091-0050

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0052-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2013.6567449

Filename

6567449