MATLAB英文材料基于matlab的仿真(含中文翻译).doc

A Matlab-based Simulator for Autonomous Mobile Robots Abstract Matlab is a powerful software development tool and can dramatically reduce the programming workload during the period of algorithm development and theory research. Unfortunately, most of commercial robot simulators do not support Matlab. This paper presents a Matlab-based simulator for algorithm development of 2D indoor robot navigation. It provides a simple user interface for constructing robot models and indoor environment models, including visual observations for the algorithms to be tested. Experimental results are presented to show the feasibility and performance of the proposed simulator. Keywords: Mobile robot, Navigation, Simulator, Matlab 1. Introduction Navigation is the essential ability that a mobile robot. During the development of new navigation algorithms, it is necessary to test them in simulated robots and environments before the testing on real robots and the real world. This is because (i) the prices of robots are expansive; (ii) the untested algorithm may damage the robot during the experiment; (iii) difficulties on the construction and alternation of system models under noise background; (iv) the transient state is difficult to track precisely; and (v) the measurements to the external beacons are hidden during the experiment, but this information is often helpful for debugging and updating the algorithms. The software simulator could be a good solution for these problems. A good simulator could provide many different environments to help the researchers to find out problems in their algorithms in different kinds of mobile robots. In order to solve the problems listed above, this simulator is supposed to be able to monitor system states closely. It also should have flexible and friendly users’ interface to develop all kinds of algorithms. Up to now, many commercial simulators with good performance have been developed. For instance, MOBOTSIM is a 2D simulator for windo