RoboCup 2003 Symposium, Padova

Simulation Tools for Real Robots SIG

Overview

Date: July 11th, 2003. 14h15.
Place: Italy, Padova, symposium room.
Aim: demos and discussions on Simulations Tools for Real Robots.
Schedule: After a short presentation of this new SIG by Olivier Michel, several demonstrations were performed (ten minutes for each demo). Then, there was little time remaining for a round table discussion.

Demos

Daniel Polani, XRaptor: a multi-agent simulator, http://www.informatik.uni-mainz.de/~polani/XRaptor/XRaptor.html
Thomas Röfer, SimRobot and the Sony Four-Legged Robot League, http://www.tzi.de/simrobot/
Brett Browning, ÜberSim, http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~coral/ubersim.html
Oliver Obst, Modular 3D simulator, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/fb4/publikationen/gelbereihe/RR-3-2003.pdf
Olivier Michel, Realistic legged robot simulator with transfer to real robots, http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/aibo/
Alexander Kleiner, robot simulator, http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~simsrv
Ansgar Bredenfeld, Robot Simulation and Rapid Prototyping Tool DDSim, http://www.ddsim.de
ThomWarmerdam, Mobile Robot Simulator, Philips Corp.
[some unscheduled demo from Japanese people is missing here, to be fixed soon hopefully]

Round Table Discussion

During about twenty minutes, a round table discussion was held between the speakers and the audience. Questions from the audience mainly intended to better understand what exactly offers each simulation tool presented during the demos. It was hence decided to provide a comparative table, so that reseachers and teachers can better make a difference between the various simulation tools available and eventually make a better choice. Such a comparative table is now available on the web site of the SIG.

Olivier Michel - July, 24th, 2003.