USARSim: A RoboCup virtual urban search and rescue competition

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6561, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Balakirsky, Stephen ^a   Scrapper, Chris ^a   Carpin, Stefano ^b   Lewis, Mike ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Multi agent; Performance metrics; RoboCup; Robotics; USAR; USARSim

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE METRICS; SOFTWARE SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

ACTUATORS; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 35948996668     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.720735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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