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CogRSim: A Robotic Simulator Software

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2014)

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Robot simulator is highly necessary and useful because it could provide flexibility and repeatability in robotic research, and the user is able to freely exert his imagination to design robot environment and algorithms. This paper presents CogRSim, a robot simulator which offers four features that differentiate it from most existing ones: (1) 3-dimensional scene could be viewed synchronously in 2-dimensional panel, which makes the user easy to observe the interaction process between the robots and environment; (2) user-defined experimental result might be displayed in appropriate style similar to Matlab; (3) the user can adjust the simulation speed, pause, restart, slower or faster; (4) some objects can be assembled into a complex one in arbitrary shape and unified physical attribute. CogRSim’s architecture and subsystems are described in detail, and then a navigation experiment is carried out to verify its usability.

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  1. School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, 510006, Guangzhou, China

    Yao Shi, Yuguang Yan, Deqin Wang, Guixin Guo, Junsheng Chen & Huaqing Min

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 510006, Guangzhou, China

    Chang’an Yi

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  1. School of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, South China University of Technology, Wushan Rd. 381, Tianhe District, 510641, Guangzhou, China

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  2. Group of Intelligent System and Biomedical Robotics, School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Shi, Y. et al. (2014). CogRSim: A Robotic Simulator Software. In: Zhang, X., Liu, H., Chen, Z., Wang, N. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13963-0_16

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