Networked Robots: Ten Years of Experiments

2005 ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Networked Robots

A Hybrid Decentralized Coordinated Approach for Multi-Robot Exploration Task

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1284-1300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Mohamed ◽  
Ayman El Shenawy ◽  
Hany Harb
Keyword(s):  
Task Assignment ◽  
Target Cells ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Networked Robots ◽  
Exploration Process ◽  
Robot Systems ◽  
Markov Decision ◽  
Partially Observable ◽  
Assignment Approach ◽  
Multi Robot

Abstract Exploring the environment using multi-robot systems is a fundamental process that most automated applications depend on. This paper presents a hybrid decentralized task assignment approach based on Partially Observable Semi-Markov Decision Processes called HDec-POSMDPs, which are general models for multi-robot coordination and exploration problems in which robots can make their own decisions according to its local data with limited communication between the robot team. In this paper, a variety of multi-robot exploration algorithms and their comparison have been tackled. These algorithms, which have been taken into consideration, are dependent on different parameters. Collectively, there are five metrics maximize the total exploration percentage, minimize overall mission time, reduce the number of hops in the networked robots, reduce the energy consumed by each robot and minimize the number of turns in the path from the start pose cells to the target cells. Therefore, a team of identical mobile robots is used to perform coordination and exploration process in an unknown cell-based environment. The performance of the task depends on the strategy of coordination among the robots involved in the team. Therefore, the proposed approach is implemented, tested and evaluated in MRESim computer simulator, and its performance is compared with different coordinated exploration strategies for different environments and different team sizes. The experimental results demonstrate a good performance of the proposed approach compared to the four existing approaches.

Networked Robots

2008 ◽  
pp. 943-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Kumar ◽  
Daniela Rus ◽  
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Keyword(s):  
Networked Robots

Cooking Support System Using Networked Robots and Sensors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenzaburo Miyawaki ◽  
Yuki Inoue ◽  
Sathoshi Nishiguchi ◽  
Motoyuki Suzuki ◽  
Yuta Muraki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Networked Robots
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