Olivier Michel
ABSTRACT
This paper describes Rat's Life: a complete cognitive robotics benchmark that was carefully designed to be easily reproducible in a research lab with limited resources. It relies on two e-puck robots, some LEGO bricks and the Webots robot simulation software. This benchmark is a survival game where two robots compete against each other for resources in an unknown maze. Like the rats in cognitive animal experimentation, the e-puck robots look for feeders which allow them to live longer than their opponent. Once a feeder is reached by a robot, the robot draws energy from it and the feeder becomes unavailable for a while. Hence, the robot has to further explore the maze, searching for other feeders while remembering the way back to the first ones. This allows them to be able to refuel easily again and again and hopefully live longer than their opponent.
- Baltes, J.: "A benchmark suite for mobile robots", IROS 2000 conference proceeding (2000), 1101--1106 vol. 2, ISBN: 0-7803-6348-5Google Scholar
Cross Ref
- Braitenberg, V.: "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1984)Google Scholar
- Serri, A.: "A Lego robot for experimental benchmarking of robust exploration algorithms", Circuits and Systems (2004), iii - 163--6 vol. 3, ISBN: 0-7803-8346-XGoogle Scholar
- Eaton, M., Collins, J. J., and Sheehan, L.: "Toward a benchmarking framework for research into bio-inspired hardware-software artefacts", Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer Japan, 40--45 Vol. 5 number 1 / March 2001, ISSN: 1433--5298Google Scholar
- Collins, J. J., Eaton, M., Mansfield, M., Haskett, D., OâĂŹSullivan, S.: "Developing a benchmarking framework for map building paradigms", Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, January 2004, Oita, Japan, pp. 614--617Google Scholar
- Kitano, H., Asada, M., Kuniyoshi, Y., et al: "RoboCup: the robot world cup initiative", IJCAI-95 workshop on entertainment and AI/ALife (1995)Google Scholar
- Jacoff, A., Weiss, B., Messina, E.: "Evolution of a Performance Metric for Urban Search and Rescue Robots", Proceedings of the 2003 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, September 16--18, 2003Google Scholar
- Michel, O. "Webots: Professional Mobile Robot Simulation", Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems, 39--42 Vol. 1 number 1 / 2004 http://www.ars-journal.com/International-Journal-of-Advanced-Robotic-Systems/Volume-1/39-42.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Dillmann, R.: "Benchmarks for Robotics Research", EURON, April 2004. http://www.cas.kth.se/euron/eurondeliverables/ka1-10-benchmarking.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Rat's Life contest. http://www.ratslife.orgGoogle Scholar
- Micromouse contest. http://www.micromouseinfo.comGoogle Scholar
- FIRST Robotics competition. http://www.usfirst.orgGoogle Scholar
- Eurobot Robotics competition. http://www.eurobot.orgGoogle Scholar
- ROBOlympics. http://www.robolympics.netGoogle Scholar
- AAAI Robot Competition and exhibition. http://palantir.cs.colby.edu/aaai07Google Scholar
- The Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA). http://www.fira.netGoogle Scholar
- DARPA Grand Challenge. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallengeGoogle Scholar
- European Land-Robot Trial ELROB. http://www.elrob.org/Google Scholar
- EURON Benchmarking Activities. http://www.euron.org/activities/benchmarks/index.htmlGoogle Scholar
- LEGO factory. http://factory.lego.comGoogle Scholar
- Cyberbotics Ltd. http://www.cyberbotics.comGoogle Scholar
- ICEA European Project (IST 027819) http://www.iceaproject.euGoogle Scholar
- e-puck web site. http://www.e-puck.orgGoogle Scholar
Recommendations
Vision-Based Humanoid Robot Navigation in a Featureless Environment
MCPR 2015: Proceedings of the 7th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 9116One of the most basic tasks for any autonomous mobile robot is that of safely navigating from one point to another e.g. service robots should be able to find their way in different kinds of environments. Typically, vision is used to find landmarks in ...
ROS-Based SLAM for a Gazebo-Simulated Mobile Robot in Image-Based 3D Model of Indoor Environment
ACIVS 2015: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems - Volume 9386Nowadays robot simulators have robust physics engines, high-quality graphics, and convenient interfaces, affording researchers to substitute physical systems with their simulation models in order to pre-estimate the performance of theoretical findings ...
SLAM and navigation in indoor environments
PSIVT'11: Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology - Volume Part IIn this paper, we propose a system for wheeled robot SLAM and navigation in indoor environments. An omni-directional camera and a laser range finder are the sensors to extract the point features and the line features as the landmarks. In SLAM and self-...
Comments