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Asked: 2026-05-21T17:15:29+00:00

I am currently doing a project for a post-grad agents paper. For my project

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I am currently doing a project for a post-grad agents paper. For my project I have an idea about extending anytime searches such as ARA* ADA* and DLite*. I want to test this idea by simulating it on a robot. I’ve been looking at different software for the past few nights and have had no luck.

Ultimately I need something that has a robot which will have the following information available at all times and in a discrete fashion:

Coordinates (x,y,z)
Velocity

I also need the robot to have some way of gathering coordinates from its environment, such as having an IR scanner which will map x,y coordinates with (passable/impassible).

Finally I’ll need to be able to program in algorithms which will use the environment information in order to suggest which states to pass through in its path to a goal coordinate.

My question is whether or not there is software which I can achieve all of this without too much effort. I wouldn’t want to spend more than 7 nights programming this and Ideally I would like to have some visible results within a night or two.

I have programmed a lot of heuristic search algorithms for my dissertation (i.e. Perimeter search, BiMaxf, BS*, A*, my own bidirectional search algorithm and also some front-to-front searches) All of which have been based on the 8/15-puzzle and can solve reasonably hard problems within a few seconds in Java. I’m comfortable using C languages or scripting ones, as all I’ll be needing will be hashtables and priority queues for the ADTs.

So is there any opensource software which I can achieve simulations with (in real time) with reasonable ease. If not, does creating my own simulator sound out of the question? If I were to do that, then it would most likely just be a 2D simulator which knows of its surrounds within a given radius… It would just be nice to do it on something already out there as the experiments wouldn’t be (as) biased…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you considered Player/Stage?

    http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/

    Player is an open source robotics platform, and stage is a simulation environment that’s coupled with it. In it’s basic form you can quickly create a mobile 2D robot, with a laser/IR/sonar scanner and simulate it in the simulation environment. Here’s a picture of what it would look like: http://goo.gl/BV4X8

    It’s open source, fairly straightforward to install (on linux anyway) and write simple configurations for. There’s tutorials to help you along too.

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