Mars Rover Simulator Project

Original publication date

8 May 2009

Original section

Robotics, GPU and research

Original slug / legacy ID

mars-rover-simulator-project / 37

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martinpeniak.com/archive/writing/mars-rover-simulator-project/

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Originally published 8 May 2009 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.

Preserved from the old research notes as a full article. The article keeps its period voice, with light formatting cleanup.

The Mars Rover Simulator project is based on evolutionary robotics paradigm where an artificial agent aquires its skills through the process of artificial evolution. The simulator provides a platform for testing of various sensory systems and their impact on the robot's behaviour. It is hoped that it can help students and researchers to learn about evolutionary robotics paradigm, neural networks, genetic algorithms, active vision and infrared sensory systems, open dynamics physics engine, openGL etc.

Developers:

Martin Peniak

Barry Bentley

Salomon Ramirez Contla

If you like the project you could consider nominating it for a 2009 Community Choice Award

Project's webpage

Download latest release

Download additional terrain models

Get the latest code from SVN repository

svn co https://marsroversim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/marsroversim marsroversim