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Simulating robot collective behavior using StarLogo

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Andy Tinkham,

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ACMSE '04: Proceedings of the 42nd annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 396 - 401

https://doi.org/10.1145/986537.986633

Published: 02 April 2004 Publication History

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Robot simulation is a very important tool to the development of novel real-world techniques for cooperation of teams of robots. One major difficulty when trying to introduce students to robotics is that the teaching of major abstractions used to coordinate group robot behavior is not easily visualized -- it is not always true that one has enough robots available to be used in real demonstrations. In this paper, we attempt to improve the situation above by implementing a robot simulator for 5 (five) of the major abstractions used in robotics. This simulator concentrates on group coordination in a scenario where robots are required to find their way out of a room or maze. This paper describes our initial version of this simulator, as well as our future plans for the simulator, both in usage and in enhancement of the feature set.

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ACMSE '04: Proceedings of the 42nd annual ACM Southeast Conference

April 2004

485 pages

ISBN:1581138709

DOI:10.1145/986537

General Chair:
Seong-Moo Yoo
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
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Letha Hughes Etzkorn
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

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