The ARUM Experimentation Platform : an Open Tool to evaluate Mobile Systems Applications

Marc-Olivier Killijian (1) , Matthieu Roy (1) , Gaetan Severac (2)

1 LAAS-TSF - Équipe Tolérance aux fautes et Sûreté de Fonctionnement informatique
2 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse]

This paper present the ARUM robotic platform. Inspired by the needs of realism in mobile networks simulation, this platform is composed of small mobiles robots using real, but attenuated, Wi-Fi communication interfaces. To reproduce at a laboratory scale mobile systems, robots are moving in an 100 square meters area, tracked by a precise positioning system. In this document we present the rational of such simulation solution, provide its complete description, and show how it can be used for evaluation by briefly explaining how to implement specific algorithms on the computers embedded by the robots. This work is an application of multi-robotics to research, presenting solutions to important problems of multi-robotics.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Informatique mobile; Informatique ubiquitaire; Systèmes embarqués

Marc-Olivier Killijian, Matthieu Roy, Gaetan Severac. The ARUM Experimentation Platform : an Open Tool to evaluate Mobile Systems Applications. AMiRE 2011: 6th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, May 2011, Bielefeld, Germany. pp.1. ⟨hal-00667832⟩