An Environment Description Language for Multirobot Simulations

A relevant problem of simulation (but also of real systems) is the knowledge that robots have of the environment. Generally this is very poor, or quite lacking, and the robots have to explore the world around them with their sensors. In a simulation process, sensor bearings are particularly lacking and the knowledge of the environment should be built using informations obtained in other way. We have designed an environment description language for multi-robot agent-based simulators. The result of our approach is a complete test system for robots that operate in indoor environments whose behaviors are based upon agents. The resulting language was called EDL.