Title :
Coverage control considering unknown moving obstacles avoidance
Author :
Kooshkbaghi, Marzieh ; Abdollahi, Farnaz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Amirkabir Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
This paper presents a new approach for coverage an environment in the presence of unknown moving obstacles. A time varying density function is proposed which represents the importance of each point and causes system to avoid collision with obstacles. A control law is presented to make agents follow the density function and avoid unknown moving obstacles while they provide the optimal coverage. The proposed algorithm is decentralized and less computationally expensive comparing to the previous related approaches.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; decentralised control; control law; coverage control; decentralized algorithm; time varying density function; unknown moving obstacles avoidance; Collision avoidance; Density functional theory; Jacobian matrices; Mobile communication; Robot sensing systems; Coverage control; Obstacle avoidance; Time varying density function;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2014 Second RSI/ISM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tehran
DOI :
10.1109/ICRoM.2014.6990882