An investigation of robot behaviours within a simulated environment

Abstract

A design for a simulator to test autonomous mobile robots is discussed in this work.Only a partial implementation of this simulator was realized. Most of the work for thesimulation world has been completed but the area concerning the running of robotprograms for use in this world has not. The simulator’s intent was to model a world ofobstacle, one target location and one mobile robot. The target location is supposed torepresent the location of an incapacitated person at risk. A successful run of thesimulation is one where a mobile robot finds its way to this target location within, atleast, a reasonable amount of time and the robot using some search algorithm to reachit. A way of creating a map of this world where a user can add obstacles and onetarget location by using a graphical user interface has been implemented. Currently, itis possible to store these maps of differing worlds as files and later to load them fromfiles.