Title :
Experiments in sensing and communication for robot convoy navigation
Author :
Dudek, G. ; Jenkin, M. ; Milios, E. ; Wilkes, D.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
This paper deals with coordinating behaviour in a multi-autonomous robot system. When two or more autonomous robots must interact in order to accomplish some common goal, communication between the robots is essential. Different inter-robot communications strategies give rise to different overall system performance and reliability. After a brief consideration of some theoretical approaches to multiple robot collections, we present concrete implementations of different strategies for convoy-like behaviour. The convoy system is based around two RWI B12 mobile robots and uses only passive visual sensing for inter-robot communication. The issues related to different communication strategies are considered
Keywords :
cooperative systems; data communication; intelligent control; mobile robots; navigation; path planning; robot vision; RWI B12 mobile robots; autonomous mobile robots; inter-robot communications; multiple robots; passive visual sensing; robot convoy navigation; Communication system control; Concrete; Context; Fault tolerance; Intelligent robots; Machine intelligence; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; System performance; Telecommunication network reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems 95. 'Human Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots', Proceedings. 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7108-4
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1995.526171
