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USARSim is a high fidelity robot simulation tool based on a commercial game engine. We illustrate the overall structure of the simulator and we argue about its use as a bridging tool between the RoboCupRescue Real Robot League and the RoboCupRescue Simulation League. In particular we show some results concerning the validation of the system. Algorithms useful for the search and rescue task have been developed in the simulator and then executed on real robots providing encouraging results.
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Carpin, S., Wang, J., Lewis, M., Birk, A., Jacoff, A. (2006). High Fidelity Tools for Rescue Robotics: Results and Perspectives. In: Bredenfeld, A., Jacoff, A., Noda, I., Takahashi, Y. (eds) RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. RoboCup 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780519_27
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