Coordination of multiple mobile robots via communication

نویسندگان

  • Huosheng Hu
  • Ian Darrell Kelly
  • David A. Keating
  • David Vinagre
چکیده

Research on the co-ordination of multiple mobile robots has to address three main problems: (i) how to appropriately divide the functionality of the system into multiple robots, (ii) how to manage the dynamic configuration of the system, and (iii) how to realise co-operation behaviour. This paper will concentrate on the third aspect. More specifically, the aim of our research is to develop a team of coordinating mobile robots via effective communication for real world applications. We will describe the methodology to achieve co-operative behaviour, the experimental mobile robots developed, and potential application areas. The developed system is demonstrated by two examples such as flocking and shared experience learning.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998