15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A FLEXIBLE SIMULATION APPROACH FOR MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS
A. Cruz, V. F. Muñoz, A. García-Cerezo
Dpto. De Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Málaga.
Plaza El Ejido s/n, 29013 Málaga, Spain.
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E-mail: {anacm,victor,agcerezo}@ctima.uma.es

A significant advantage of multirobot simulation lays on the fact that their physical features and environment can be simulated, and hence, difficulties that spring when managing them are avoided. This paper shows a flexible method for simulating multirobot systems. It provides a simple and non propietary structure of classes, that can be used as the backbone of complex developments, adapted to every multirobot system needings. The approach is based on discrete events systems, so it can simulate the inherent concurrency associated to multirobot systems. The paper presents results obtained when this solution is implemented using MATLAB, a numeric computation tool.
Keywords: autonomous mobile robots, discrete event systems, vehicle simulators, concurrency, trajectory planning
Session slot T-We-A20: Multi-Robot Systems/Area code 1d : Robotics