--- abstract: 'This paper presents the prototype of a new computer simulator for the humanoid robot iCub. The iCub is a new open-source humanoid robot developed as a result of the “RobotCub” project, a collaborative European project aiming at developing a new open-source cognitive robotics platform. The iCub simulator has been developed as part of a joint effort with the European project “ITALK” on the integration and transfer of action and language knowledge in cognitive robots. This is available open-source to all researchers interested in cognitive robotics experiments with the iCub humanoid platform.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Tikhanoff given: Vadim honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Cangelosi given: Angelo honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Fitzpatrick given: Paul honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Metta given: Giorgio honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Natale given: Lorenzo honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Nori given: Francesco honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2008-08 date_type: published datestamp: 2008-10-22 01:17:17 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/62/38 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: 'Madhavan ' given: R honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Messina given: E.R. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6238 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6238/1/Tikhanoff%2Det%2Dal%2Dfinal%2DACM.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Open-Source, Simulator, iCub humanoid robot, cognitive robotics' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:13 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS’08) publisher: ACM refereed: TRUE referencetext: "[1]\tJ.C. Bongard & R. Pfeifer (2003). Evolving complete agents using artificial ontogeny. In Hara, F. & R. Pfeifer, Eds., Morpho-functional Machines: The New Species (Designing Embodied Intelligence) Springer-Verlag, pp. 237-258\r\n[2]\tPF Dominey (2007) Sharing Intentional Plans for Imitation and Cooperation: Integrating Clues from Child Developments and Neurophysiology into Robotics, Proceedings of the AISB 2007 Workshop on Imitation.\r\n[3]\tEuropean commission, unit e5, home page. http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/cognition/index.html, 2007.\r\n[4]\tEvorobot http://laral.istc.cnr.it/evorobot/simulator.html\r\n[5]\tP. Fitzpatrick, G. Metta, L. Natale: Towards Long-lived Robot Genes, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56(1):29-45, 2008\r\n[6]\tB. Gerkey, R. T. Vaughan and A. Howard. The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2003.\r\n[7]\tN. Koenig and A. Howard. Design and Use Paradigms for Gazebo, An Open-Source Multi-Robot Simulator. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, 2004.\r\n[8]\tC. Leger, Darwin2K: An Evolutionary Approach to Automated Design for Robotics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Aug 2000.\r\n[9]\tG. Metta, P. Fitzpatrick & L. Natale. YARP: Yet Another Robot Platform. International Journal on Advanced Robotics Systems, 3(1):43–48, 2006.\r\n[10]\tO. Michel, “Webots: Professional mobile robot simulation,” International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.39–42, 2004.\r\n[11]\tN. Nava,V. Tikhanoff, G. Metta, G Sandini, Kinematic and Dynamic Simulations for The Design of RoboCub Upper-Body Structure ESDA 2008\r\n[12]\tS. Nolfi & D. Floreano (2000). Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books\r\n[13]\tOpen Dynamics Engine http://opende.sourceforge.net/.\r\n[14\tOpenSim Simulator http://opensimulator.sourceforge.net/.\r\n[15\tSDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer http://www.libsdl.org/\r\n[16]\tSimbad Simulator - http://simbad.sourceforge.net\r\n[17]\tWebots - http://www.cyberbotics.com/\r\n[18]\tZiemke T. (2003). On the role of robot simulations in embodied cognitive science, AISB Journal, 1(4), 389-99\r\n" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 42 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2008-10-22 01:17:17 subjects: - comp-sci-robot - comp-sci-art-intel succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'An Open-Source Simulator for Cognitive Robotics Research: The Prototype of the iCub Humanoid Robot Simulator' type: bookchapter userid: 24 volume: ~