USARSim: A robot simulator for research and education

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1400-1405

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

^a Merced   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; SEARCH ENGINES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROBOT SIMULATORS; SIMULATION ENGINE; USARSIM; VIRTUAL ROBOTS COMPETITION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36348999209     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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