A Distributed Environment for Virtual and/or Real Experiments for Underwater Robots
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This paper presents the Distributed Environment for Virtual and/or Real Experiments for Underwater Robots (DEVRE). This environment is composed of a set of processes running on a local area network composed of three sites: (1) the onboard AUV computer, (2) a Surface computer used as human machine interface (HMI) and (3) a computer used for simulating the vehicle dynamics and representing the virtual world. The HMI can be transparently linked to the real sensors and actuators dealing with a real mission. It can also be linked with virtual sensors and virtual actuators, dealing with a virtual mission. The aim of DEVRE is to assist engineers during the software development and testing in the lab prior to real experiments.
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