Proposal for a Rapid Prototyping Environment for Algorithms Intended for Autonoumus Mobile Robot Control

In the paper, the author provides a proposal of a quick prototyping environment for algorithms controlling homogenous, autonomous mobile robots. The solution proposed enables monitoring of the operation of a group of mobile robots consisting of the recording of motion parameters and signals from distance detectors as well as of controlling the drive units. Furthermore, the solution is ∞exible, enabling work with various numbers of robots as well as modiflcation of their settings, and conforms to the real time system requirements assumed. In the course of the development process, AmigoBot mobile robots manufactured by ActiveMedia Robotics were used. The control and measuring environment proposed has been verifled based on the sample behavioural task of "running in the middle of a free space".