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USARSim: Providing a Framework for Multi-Robot Performance Evaluation

Published

Author(s)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Stefano Carpin, M L. Lewis

Abstract

Research efforts in urban search and rescue robotics have grown substantially in recent years. Two important robotic competitions (a robot physical league and a high-level infrastructure simulation league) were established in 2001 under the RoboCup umbrella to foster collaboration amongst institutions and to provide benchmark test environments for system evaluation. While these leagues play valuable roles, a significant gap existed between simulating disaster infrastructure and implementing agent behaviors on real hardware. In this paper we describe a software simulation framework intended to be a bridge between these communities. The framework allows for the realistic modeling of robots, sensors, and actuators, as well as complex, unstructured, dynamic environments. Multiple heterogeneous agents can be concurrently placed in the simulation environment thus allowing for team or group evaluations. This paper presents a description of the simulation along with results from the RoboCup 2006 Virtual Robot Competition in which it was used and a roadmap of the framework s future directions.
Proceedings Title
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop| 2006 | PerMIS
Conference Dates
August 21-23, 2006
Conference Location
Gaithersburg, MD
Conference Title
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop 2006

Keywords

performance evaluation, robotics, simulation, USARSim

Citation

Balakirsky, S. , Scrapper, C. , Carpin, S. and Lewis, M. (2006), USARSim: Providing a Framework for Multi-Robot Performance Evaluation, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop| 2006 | PerMIS, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=823595 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created January 31, 2006, Updated February 19, 2017