Name of Paper

Coordination of multiple mobile robots via communication


Authors

Huosheng Hu, Ian Kelly David Keating and David Vinagre


Published

Proceedings of SPIE. Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Nov 1998. Boston, Massachusetts. pp 94-103.


Abstract

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.


Electronic copy

spie98.ps.Z (500K)