Title :
Multi-robot boundary coverage with plan revision
Author :
Williams, Kjerstin ; Burdick, Joel
Author_Institution :
Div. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
This paper revisits the multi-robot boundary coverage problem in which a group of k robots must inspect every point on the boundary of a 2-dimensional environment. We focus on the case in which revision of the original inspection plan may be necessary due to changes in the robot team size or the environment. Building upon prior work, which presented a graph-based approach to path planning for this problem, we present a graph representation of the task that is greatly reduced in complexity and a path revision algorithm appropriate for addressing such changes
Keywords :
inspection; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; path planning; graph representation; inspection plan revision; multi-robot boundary coverage; path planning; path revision algorithm; Collaboration; Inspection; Paper technology; Path planning; Robots; Robustness; Security; Surveillance; Technological innovation; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9505-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641954