ASCARI: A Component Based Simulator for Distributed Mobile Robot Systems

ASCARI is a simulator dedicated to distributed and cooperative mobile robotics systems, designed as a framework for implementing and testing multi-agent collaborative algorithms, especially suited to evaluate algorithms performances with a non-perfect communication channel (e.g. delayed, limited bandwidth, limited range). Compared to state-of-art simulators, ASCARI meets a complex new requirement: inter-agent communication has to be integrated in the simulation loop.

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