Enabling Codesharing in Rescue Simulation with USARSim/ROS

نویسندگان

  • Zeid Kootbally
  • Stephen Balakirsky
  • Arnoud Visser
چکیده

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been steadily gaining popularity among robotics researchers as an open source framework for robot control. The Uni ed System for Automation and Robot Simulation (USARSim) has been used for many years by robotics researchers and developers as a validated framework for simulation. This paper presents a new ROS node that is designed to seamlessly interface between ROS and USARSim. It provides for automatic con guration of ROS transforms and topics to allow for full utilization of the simulated hardware. The design of the new node as well as examples of its use for mobile robot inside the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League are presented.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013