Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
MODELLING A CRAWLER-TYPE UGV FOR URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE IN GAZEBO ENVIRONMENT
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2017
Языканглийский
  • Afanasev Ilya Mikhaylovich, author
  • Lavrenov Roman Olegovich, author
  • Magid Evgeniy Arkadevich, author
  • Sabirova Leysan Nailevna, author
  • Sagitov Artur Gazizovich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Sokolov M., Afanasyev I., Lavrenov R., Sagitov A., Sabirova L., & Magid E. Modelling a crawler-type UGV for urban search and rescue in Gazebo environment // ICAROB 2017: International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (Miyazaki, Japan; 19-22 January 2017) - p. 360-363.
    Annotation A long-standing goal of robotics is to substitute humans in unreachable or dangerous environments, and one of such environments is urban search and rescue (USAR) domain. For USAR tasks we have selected a novel Russian crawler-type robot Engineer, and this paper presents our first steps toward modelling the robot in ROS/Gazebo environment. We convert provided by robot developers CAD models into workable ROS-based 3D simulation and incorporate physical parameters of the mechanisms into the model, focusing on track simulation. Robot motion and relative interplay of its visible mechanical parts is visualized in RViz software. The proposed model is integrated into a ready-to-use ROS navigation stack and the model's behavior is thoroughly investigated while navigating through static obstacles populated scene in Gazebo environment. In this paper, we introduce an approximation of track-surface interaction of Engineer robot with modeled environment, and discuss the applicability of ROS-based “Gazebo-tracks” package for robust robot locomotion.
    Keywords Mobile robot, modelling, crawler rorbot, Gazebo, ROS
    The name of the journal ICAROB 2017: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS
    URL https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Modelling-a-crawler-type-UGV-for-urban-search-and-Sokolov-Afanasyev/9dbc830fc9b8e85b8c84a2d993d40fa947e005ca
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