Aladdin

The RoboCupRescue platform was originally developed by Japanese universities in response to the Hanshin-Awaji disaster. As a disaster simulator it enabled the simulation and testing of agent-based coordination algorithms in very dynamic and uncertain environments. The original version of the simulator was chosen as the testbed for ALADDIN technologies and was further improved and extended as part of the project. The end-result is a well-engineered simulator with realistic traffic simulation (developed in collaboration with Meijo University) and GIS map conversion (in collaboration with Freiburg University) that allows disasters to be simulated in selected parts of any given map (OpenStreetMap or GIS formats). The platform remains open-sourced and is available on Sourceforge.