Section: Software
Experimental Testbeds
Participants : Patrick Rives, Pascal Morin, Ezio Malis, Patrick Pollet, Thomas Arnould, Alexandre Chapoulie, Melaine Gautier.
Methodological solutions to the multi-faceted problem of robot autonomy have to be combined with the ever present preoccupation of robustness and real-time implementability. In this respect, validation and testing on physical systems is essential, not only as a means to bring together all aspects of the research done in ARobAS –and thus maintain the coherence and unity of the project-team–, but also to understand the core of the problems on which research efforts should focus in priority. The instrumented indoor and outdoor wheeled robots constitute a good compromise in terms of cost, security, maintenance, complexity and usefulness to test much of the research conducted in the project-team and to address real size problems currently under investigation in the scientific communauty. For the next few years, we foresee on site testbeds dedicated to ground robotic applications (figure 1 ).
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HANNIBAL cart-like platform
A new cart-like platform, built by Neobotix, was acquired last year to replace our old indoor mobile robot ANIS. It can operate on flat surfaces, in both indoor and outdoor environments. This platform will be equiped with the various sensors needed for SLAM purposes, autonomous navigation and sensor-based control. Once its programming is further developed to become user-friendly, it should be one of the team's main testbeds for fast prototyping of perception, control and autonomous navigation algorithms.
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CyCab urban electrical car
Two instrumented electrical cars of the CyCab family are destined to validate researchs in the domain of Intelligent urban vehicle . CyCabs are used as experimental testbeds in several national projects.
