Virtual environment for robots interfaces design and testing

Abstract

This paper refers to the implementation of a virtual environment for the robot interfaces testing. This software environment is very useful because, comparing to the experiments with real robots, it allow the testing and evaluation of different types of interfaces and different working environments with diverse configurations. A very important facility of this interactive software environment is the fact that the designers of the robots sensors and interfaces are able to work in parallel to design test, optimize and realize different control devices for the robot.