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Löffler, Axel; Klahold, Jürgen; Hußmann, Manfred; Rückert, Ulrich: A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behaviour Analysis and Optimization. In: Floreano, Dario; Nicoud, Jean-Daniel; Mondada, Francesco editor. : Proceedings of the 5th International European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 1674 , S. 329-333, Lausanne, Switzerland, 13 - 17 Sep 1999, Springer-Verlag

Abstract

The design of behavior generating control structures for real robots acting autonomously in a real and changing environment is a complex task. This is in particular true with respect to the debugging process, the documentation of the encountered behavior, its quantitative analysis and the final evaluation. To successfully implement such a behavior, it is vital to couple the synthesis on a simulator and the experiment on a real robot with a thorough analysis. The available simulator tools in general only allow behavioral snapshots and do not provide the option of online interference. In order to cure these shortcomings, a visualization tool for aposteriori graphical analysis of recorded data sets which gives access to all relevant internal states and parameters of the system is presented. The mini-robot Khepera has been chosen as experimentatory platform.

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@inproceedings{hniid=27,
author = {Löffler, Axel and Klahold, Jürgen and Hußmann, Manfred and Rückert, Ulrich},
title = {A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behaviour Analysis and Optimization},
editor = {Floreano, Dario and Nicoud, Jean-Daniel and Mondada, Francesco},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL99)},
volume = {1674},
series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
pages = {329-333},
address = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
month = {13~-~17~} # sep,
year = {1999},
}