Firebots: Autonomous Fire Detecting Robots

Player-Stage Opensource Project

Player/Stage is an open source project initiated by several academics in the field of robotics. With the help of the open source community, it has now grown to entail many other areas such as sensor and actuation interfacing, wireless control, 2D and 3D simulation environments, camera visualization and many more. It also offers very powerful multi-robot navigation, localization and path-planning design tools. Player/Stage is compatible with a large number of sensors including sonar, laser, radar, infrared, pan-zoom-tilt cameras, and many more. Finally, it provides a capable library of reusable code and serves as a platform to develop robotic systems more quickly and efficiently. Based on the widespread usage of Player/Stage in the field of robotics, the potentially enormous benefits of the above capabilities, the lack of any other viable competitors and the fact that it is free, it was chosen as the underlying platform to be used for this project.