Title :
Robot coverage of terrain with non-uniform traversability
Author :
Zheng, Xiaoming ; Koenig, Sven
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
fDate :
Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007
Abstract :
In this paper, we study how multiple robots can cover known terrain quickly. We extend Multi-Robot Forest Coverage, a state-of-the-art multi-robot coverage algorithm, from terrain with uniform traversability to terrain with non-uniform traversability, which is nontrivial. We prove that its cover times are at most about sixteen times larger than minimal and demonstrate experimentally that they are significantly smaller than those of an alternative multi-robot coverage algorithm.
Keywords :
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; trees (mathematics); mobile robots; multirobot forest coverage; nonuniform traversability; spanning tree coverage; terrain coverage; Algorithm design and analysis; Cleaning; Computer science; Intelligent robots; Intrusion detection; Notice of Violation; Polynomials; USA Councils; Cell Decomposition; Multi-Robot Coverage; Robot Teams; Spanning Tree Coverage; Terrain Coverage.;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0912-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0912-9
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2007.4399423