TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-robot cooperation strategies in a searching task with limited communication
AU - Meng, Yan
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
AU - Gan, Jing
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Multi-robot cooperation is critical for the efficiency of a searching task. It is assumed that explicit communications between robots are always reliable. However, the limited power, low radio range, and an ever changing environment make the explicitly communicate attenuate. In this paper, several integration strategies are proposed to coordinate a team of robots under limited communication. In addition, implicit communication through vision sensors is proposed to speed up the recovery of the broken explicit communication. Simulation results with Player/Gazebo simulator show that the proposed multi-robot coordination approaches are feasible, robust, and efficient in a searching task. The proposed strategies can be extended to a large-scale searching environment as well as to a combination of humans and robots.
AB - Multi-robot cooperation is critical for the efficiency of a searching task. It is assumed that explicit communications between robots are always reliable. However, the limited power, low radio range, and an ever changing environment make the explicitly communicate attenuate. In this paper, several integration strategies are proposed to coordinate a team of robots under limited communication. In addition, implicit communication through vision sensors is proposed to speed up the recovery of the broken explicit communication. Simulation results with Player/Gazebo simulator show that the proposed multi-robot coordination approaches are feasible, robust, and efficient in a searching task. The proposed strategies can be extended to a large-scale searching environment as well as to a combination of humans and robots.
KW - Cooperation strategies
KW - Limited communication
KW - Multi-robot system
KW - Searching task
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54949129156
SN - 0889865957
SN - 9780889865952
T3 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications
SP - 37
EP - 42
BT - Proceedings of the 12th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, RA 2006
T2 - 12th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, RA 2006
Y2 - 14 August 2006 through 16 August 2006
ER -