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High fidelity tools for rescue robotics: results and perspectives

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Stefano Carpin,

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RoboCup 2005: robot Soccer World Cup IX

January 2006

Pages 301 - 311

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USARSim is a high fidelity robot simulation tool based on a commercial game engine. We illustrate the overall structure of the simulator and we argue about its use as a bridging tool between the RoboCupRescue Real Robot League and the RoboCupRescue Simulation League. In particular we show some results concerning the validation of the system. Algorithms useful for the search and rescue task have been developed in the simulator and then executed on real robots providing encouraging results.

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RoboCup 2005: robot Soccer World Cup IX

January 2006

723 pages

ISBN:3540354379

Editors:
Ansgar Bredenfeld
Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS), Sankt Augustin, Germany
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Adam Jacoff
Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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Itsuki Noda
Intelligent Systems Division, Information Technology Research Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Yasutake Takahashi
Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki

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