Development of open simulation system for robot soccer

FU De-xiao, LI Xiao-ming
(Faculty of Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China)

Abstract: Robot soccer is considered as a good platform and test field for academic researches, especially for artificial intelligence and multi-agent system. Simulation technology was widely used in the development in order to lower the cost and improve the research efficiency. Aiming at the deficient use of the simulation in the robot soccer, an open simulation system was put forward based on the platform/plug-in structure. The C/S model was adopted to separate the core of the simulation platform with the 3D display module, so that the speed of simulation calculating and scene rendering were both improved greatly. The performance of the simulation system was also improved by optimizing the ODE parameters and the simulation model. The results indicate that the great flexibility and expandability were brought by the platform/plug-in mechanism and C/S based 3D display model.
Key words: robot soccer; open simulation system; platform/plug-in; C/S