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USING A REAL-TIME KERNEL TO SIMULATE THE MICRO-RATO ROBOTICS CONTEST
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@MISC{Capucho_usinga,
author = {João Capucho and Luís Almeida and Giorgio Buttazzo and Via Ferrata and I- Pavia Italia},
title = {USING A REAL-TIME KERNEL TO SIMULATE THE MICRO-RATO ROBOTICS CONTEST},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract: After 5 editions of growing number of participants coming from all over Portugal, the Micro-Rato contest has become a well known mobile robotics contest in the country. It promotes a cross fertilization among teams that is strongly educational, appealing and challenging simultaneously for those more or less skilled. In order to improve the robots performance, the use of a contest simulator during construction is highly desirable. In fact, it allows testing the robot behaviour in parallel with its construction, possibly leading to the early detection of either software or hardware design faults. This paper describes such a simulator that is based on a multi-tasking realtime kernel (HARTIK). The advantages of using such a software infrastructure are also discussed. In particular it allows enforcing the correct temporal behaviour of each simulated robot, leading to a more realistic simulation.
