Resumen de Simulation of Communication with in the RHEA Robotic Fleet
Mariona Roca, Slobodanca Tomic
Webots (Webots 2011a; Webots 2011b) is a commercial mobile robotsimulation software package, widely used by research groups and universities. Itallows the users to simulate the behaviour of the robots in detail. However, it hassignificant shortcomings in the communication modelling as it provides a simplemodel of connectivity only based on the distance between the devices. TheNetwork Simulator (NS2) (NS 2011) is on the other hand, an open source networksimulator that offers simulation models for a wide range of networks and routingprotocols in a structured way.This paper presents an approach to integrate more realistic model ofcommunication in the Webots platform by introducing the modelling conceptsalready evaluated with implementations for NS2. As a result, we add newfunctionalities to the simulator that help the user to understand the impact ofcommunication on the robotic mission..
