Simulation of the video feedback for mobile robots in simbad environment

Abstract

Rapid progress in the field of machine vision applications can be especially clearly visible in robotics. For this reason many groups of image processing and analysis algorithms and solutions which have not been previously applied in automation and robotics require testing, verification and modifications before their application in any hardware solution. Such prototyping of video applications for robotics is possible using a simulation environment without the necessity of building the physical robot which can be damaged or even lost during some preliminary experiments. In order to verify and demonstrate the usefulness of such approach some experiments related to video feedback for mobile robotics have been conducted using free Java based 3D mobile robot simulator known as Simbad. Presented results confirm the great potential of such simulation environments in rapidly developing area of machine vision applications in robotics.