| Y.Cao, A.S.Fukunaga, and A.B.Kahng. Cooperative mobile robotics: Antecedents and directions. Autonomous Robots, (4), 1997. |
.... in [33] There are researchers proposing robot architecture such as [34] while others are putting their efforts toward solving geometric problems [35] 36] However, very few applications of cooperative robotics have been yet reported, and supporting theory is still in its formative stages [37]. Convoying behavior involves the use of multiple robots. Wang [38] has simulated some navigation path planning strategies for more than three mobile robots to move in formation. Sensing and communication for robot convoy were experimented in [39] The work discussed in this section is focusing ....
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga, A. B. Kahng, and F. Meng, "Cooperative mobile robotics: Antecedents and directions," in IROS, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 1995, vol. 1, pp. 226--234.
..... 73 A.3 Ethernet Modem. 73 INTRODUCTION Mobile Robots can be found nowadays in factories, storage areas, universities, hospitals, nuclear plants, private homes and even on Mars. Multi robot populations [7] [17] [59] are becoming increasingly popular among researchers. Many competitions are held regularly, where populations of mobile robots work towards the accomplishment of a given (common) task (e.g. AAAI Robotic Contest [8] RoboCup [53] and MiroSot [45] From a commercial industrial standpoint, ....
....ed according to those features and brie y described. 2.1 Group Architecture The group architecture is the infra structure underlying the population organization. It comprehends concepts such as homogeneity of the population, the population control architecture and the communication capabilities [17]. Ultimately, the architecture determines the abilities and limitations of the system [39] In the following, some of the key features of the group architecture are presented. 2.1.1 Decision Making One of the fundamental decisions to be taken when de ning the group architecture is the decision ....
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Y. Uny Cao, Alex S. Fukunaga, Andrew B. Kahng, and Frank Meng. Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions. In Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on IROS, 1995.
....systems are devised, simulated and finally implemented. Since so much of this progress is recent, apparent intellectual heritages from other fields have driven research, i.e. traffic control, box pushing, and foraging task, which is one of the canonical test beds for cooperative robotics [Cao 95] The field of DAI is highly relevant to co operative robotics. Grounded in social sciences and the traditional symbolic AI, DAI is composed of two major areas of study: Reactive vs. Deliberative Responsibility Action Capabilities Social Capabilities Behaviours and Tasks REQUEST, INRE ....
.... of such systems extends research on single robot systems because they are of interest for two reasons: 1) tasks are too complex to be accomplished for a single robot, 2) although a single robot can be too powerful, using several simple robots is more flexible, cheaper, and more faulttolerant [Cao 95] The study of multiple robots has extended research on single robots systems and now it is a discipline unto itself. In addition, such systems are also different from other distributed systems (computers, networks, databases, Internet) because of their real world environment so that ....
Y.U.Cao, A.S.Fukunaga, et al. "Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions". IEEE Transactions in Robotics. pp. 226-234. 1995.
....CC(X # ) too. # We omit the discussion of pm 1 = p1 and p0 = pn 17 #X #X p i p i p i 1 p i 1 p i 1 p i 1 Figure 8: Algorithm to compute CC 5 Further Applications If the Weber point is not in the given set, it can be used to get a solution for the circle formation problem, mentioned in [SS90, CFK97]. In this problem, the robots should move such that all their positions are on a circle with radius bigger than 0. The center of the circle is defined as the Weber point, the radius can be defined in di#erent ways. If the robots use all the same unit distance, an arbitrary radius can be chosen. If ....
Y. Uny Cao, A. Fukunaga, and A. Kahng. Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions. Autonomous Robots, 4:1--23, 1997.
....This is challenging in mobile robotics, given the noisy, system specific nature of the field. Nevertheless, it is necessary for claims about robustness and near optimality to be appropriately quantified, and for dependencies on various control parameters to be better understood. [20] Only after rigorous testing becomes standard in the robotics community, and the di#culties associated with using real sensors and actuators are embraced, will designs emerge that prove to be robust in the real world. 2.2 Odor Localization Recent advances have been made in understanding ....
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga, and A. B. Kahng. Cooperative mobile robotics: Antecedents and directions. Autonomous Robots, 4:1--23, 1997.
....and keeping the robots together to cover wide areas more efficiently without letting the opponent past. 5. RELATED WORK Multi robot information gathering has been addressed by many researchers. The classical setting involves a team of robots locating stationary objects in an unknown environment [35, 10, 16, 23]. Most existing work in this field involves behavior based strategies, in which the search is carried out through randomized motion. Coordination is often achieved through behaviors that maximize the distance between adjacent robots. Research in this field has predominantly focused on static ....
Cao Y.U., Fukunaga A.S., and Kahng A.B. Cooperative mobile robotics: Antecedents and directions. Autonomous Robots, 4, 1997.
....achieved under the weakness assumptions of our model, that will be detailed later. Alternative approaches to the problem of studying multirobot systems, can be found in the CEBOT system of [17] in the planner based architecture of [23] or in the information requirements theory of [11] see [6] for a survey) The common feature of all these approaches is that they do not deal with formal correctness and they are only analyzed empirically. Algorithmic aspects were somehow implicitly an issue, but clearly not a major concern. We aim to identify the algorithmic limitations of what ....
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga, A. B. Kahng, and F. Meng. Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions. In Int. Conf. on Intel. Robots and Sys., pages 226--234, 1995.
....by a single unit [3,4] e.g. robots that have to move big objects [5] certain problems can be solved quicker [6] e.g. robots that are asked to clean a room [7] for fault tolerance considerations; the decreased cost through simpler individual unit design. An extensive survey can be found in [8]. One major question that arises is: How is it possible to properly coordinate these groups of units, such that they can together accomplish what they are asked to do And another question is: How simple can these units be [9] In this paper we study the flocking problem: a set of vehicles are ....
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga, A. B. Kahng, F. Meng, Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions, in: IEEE/TSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995, pp. 226--234, Yokohama, Japan.
.... has been considered for both simulated and real multiagent systems in the collection of papers edited by Hannebauer, Wendler, and Pagello [33] Rather than to try to summarize the research articles in this special issue into a taxonomy of cooperative systems (see Dudek [29] and Cao [23] for previous related summaries) we instead organize this research by the principal topic areas that have generated significant levels of study, to the extent possible in a limited space. The seven principle topic areas of Multi Robot Systems that we have identified are: Biological ....
Y. Cao, A. Fukunaga, and A. Kahng. Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions. Autonomous Robots, 4:1--23, 1997.
....can be considered mature. Some areas have been explored more extensively, however, and the community is beginning to understand how to develop and control certain aspects of multi robot teams. Thus, rather than summarize the research into a taxonomy of cooper ative systems (see Dudek [18] and Cao [12] for previous related summaries) we instead organize this research by the principal topic areas that have generated significant levels of study, to the extent possible in a limited space. As we present the review, we identify key open research issues within each topic area. We conclude by ....
Y. Uny Cao, Alex Fukunaga, Andrew Kahng, and Frank Meng. Cooperative mobile robotics: Antecedents and directions. In Proceedings of 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '95), pages 226-234, 1995.
....MinDART robots searched for the infrared emitting targets in a search and retrieval task. Landmarks were used for homing and localization. 2 Related Work Most research with multiple robots has focused on various forms of collaborative work as detailed, for instance, in [ Arkin and Bekey, 1997, Cao et al. 1997, Dudek et al. 2002 ] While collaboration may be essential for some tasks, we are interested in studying tasks that can be done by a single robot, but where using multiple robots can potentially increase performance by decreasing the time to complete the task and or by increasing the ....
Y. Uny Cao, Alex S. Fukunaga, and Andrew B. Kahng. Cooperative mobile robotics: antecedents and directions. Autonomous Robots, 4(1):7--27, 1997.
....by a single unit [3,4] e.g. robots that have to move big objects [5] certain problems can be solved quicker [6] e.g. robots that are asked to clean a room [7] for fault tolerance considerations; the decreased cost through simpler individual unit design. An extensive survey can be found in [8]. One major question that arises is: How is it possible to properly coordinate these groups of units, such that they can together accomplish what they are asked to do And another question is: How simple can these units be [9] In this paper we study the ocking problem: a set of vehicles are ....
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga, A. B. Kahng, F. Meng, Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions, in: IEEE/TSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995, pp. 226-234, Yokohama, Japan.
....deliver real time performance in a dynamic world because of their failure to adequately address the situatedness and embodiment of physical robots. Thus, a behavior based approach to cooperation was utilized in ALLIANCE to increase the robustness and adaptivity of the cooperative team. Refer to [11] for a detailed review of much of the existing work in cooperative robotics. III. ALLIANCE A. Assumptions In the design of any control scheme, it is important to make explicit those assumptions underlying the approach. Thus, before describing the ALLIANCE architecture in detail, we first ....
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