Massively multi-robot simulation in stage

By Richard T. Vaughan. Swarm Intelligence, 2008

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Mechanical Engineering, Software

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The OpenGRASP benchmarking suite: An environment for the comparative analysis of grasping and dexterous manipulation (2011, background): “The topic “benchmarking” is also discussed in swarm robotics [9], planning [10], human/robot interaction [11] and domestic robotics [12].”
BlenSor: Blender Sensor Simulation Toolbox (2011, methodology): “Compared to robot simulation software ([2,7]), BlenSor focuses on simulation of the sensors itself rather than the interaction of sensor equipped robots with the environment.”
Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective (2013, background): “Vaughan (2008) proposed a benchmark to study scalability in multi-robot simulators and applied it to the Stage simulator.”
Reinforced Imitation: Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation by Leveraging Prior Demonstrations (2018, methodology): “One training iteration— for which we consider a batch consisting of 60 k time steps— takes around 180 s using the accelerated Stage [33] simulation.”
Human Interaction With Robot Swarms: A Survey (2016, methodology): “There are a variety of robot simulation platforms that have been used for studies and benchmarking, such as the widely used Stage platform [9] which offers 2D”
Research Advance in Swarm Robotics (2013, background): “Stage [102] is a scalable simulator that is interfaced to Player and can simulate a population of 1000 mobile robots in a 2D bitmapped environment in parallel.”
Towards an Ethical Robot: Internal Models, Consequences and Ethical Action Selection (2014, methodology): “Examples of robot simulators include Webots [9] and Player-Stage [14].”
Intention-aware online POMDP planning for autonomous driving in a crowd (2015, methodology): “It uses Stage [23] to simulate the vehicle dynamics and uses the same environment map.”