Abstract
SimSpark is an open source robot simulator developed by RoboCup Community. This paper briefly describes the development of SimSpark since 2008. Furthermore, some new features are proposed and implemented for the next RoboCup, including realistic motor, heterogeneous robots, and agent proxies. As a powerful tool to state different multi-robot researches, SimSpark has been successfully used in RoboCup simulation league, standard platform league and humanoid league.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
References
Intel ® threading building blocks, http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/
Boedecker, J., Asada, M.: Simspark – concepts and application in the robocup 3d soccer simulation league. In: Proceedings of the SIMPAR-2008 Workshop on The Universe of RoboCup Simulators, Venice, Italy (November 2008)
Boedecker, J., Dorer, K., Rollmann, M., Xu, Y., Xue, F., Buchta, M., Vatankhah, H., Glaser, S.: SimSpark User’s Manual, 1.3 edn. (August 2010)
Donat, H.: Evaluation of Simulators for Humanoid Soccer Playing Robots and Integration in an Existing System. Bachelor thesis. Department of Computer Science, Freien Universität Berlin (2012)
Held, A.: Creating an abstract physics layer for simspark. Tech. rep. University of Koblenz-Landau (2010)
Mellmann, H., Xu, Y., Krause, T., Holzhauer, F.: Naoth software architecture for an autonomous agent. In: International Workshop on Standards and Common Platforms for Robotics (SCPR 2010), Darmstadt (November 2010)
Obst, O., Rollmann, M.: SPARK – A Generic Simulator for Physical Multiagent Simulations. Computer Systems Science and Engineering 20(5), 347–356 (2005)
Riley, P.: Spades: A system for parallel-agent, discrete-event simulation. AI Magazine 24(2), 41 (2003)
Smith, R.: Open Dynamic Engine User Guide (2006), http://www.ode.org (last visited at July 02, 2013)
Stoecker, J., Visser, U.: Roboviz: Programmable visualization for simulated soccer. In: Röfer, T., Mayer, N.M., Savage, J., Saranlı, U. (eds.) RoboCup 2011. LNCS, vol. 7416, pp. 282–293. Springer, Heidelberg (2012)
Xu, Y.: From Simulation to Reality: Migration of Humanoid Robot Control. Ph.D. thesis. Humboldt-Universität zu, Berlin (2012)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Xu, Y., Vatankhah, H. (2014). SimSpark: An Open Source Robot Simulator Developed by the RoboCup Community. In: Behnke, S., Veloso, M., Visser, A., Xiong, R. (eds) RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. RoboCup 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_59
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_59
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-44467-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-44468-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)