Recovery in Autonomous Robot Swarms
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چکیده
A swarm of robots is composed of several small and simple robots that can communicate to perform complex tasks. Those robots are subject to failures: battery outage, hardware destruction, or hardware failure. When a robot fails, its whole state is lost. The task realized by this robot needs to be restarted then the swarm might need some data from the failed robot. Even when this data is not needed for restarting the process, losing this data can entail a lot of cost for the swarm. Ensuring state backup of the robots is, somehow, very useful. This can be done by a general wireless coverage. However, this coverage can be difficult and expensive to deploy. To address this issue, a collaborative backup system uses encounters of each robot as temporary backup points to save its internal state. In this paper, we present a collaborative backup system for swarm of robots.
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