Robotics simulation provides many advantages during the development of an intelligent ground vehicle (IGV) such as testing the software components in varying scenarios without requiring a complete physical robot. This paper discusses a 3D simulation environment created using rapid application development and the Unity game engine to enable testing during a mobile robotics competition. Our experience shows that the simulation environment contributed greatly to the development of software for the competition. The simulator also contributed to the hardware development of the robot.

翻译：机器人模拟在开发智能地面飞行器(IGV)期间提供了许多优势,如在不要求完全物理机器人的情况下在不同情况下测试软件组件,本文讨论了利用快速应用开发和United游戏引擎创建的3D模拟环境,以便在移动机器人竞赛期间进行测试。我们的经验表明,模拟环境极大地促进了竞争软件的开发。模拟环境也促进了机器人的硬件开发。