Title :
Research on Formation Handling of Serial Swarm Robots
Author :
Jianhua Wu ; Mingshun Qi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Eng., Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
With analysis and research for of the serial formation of swarms robots movement, the strategy of keeping swarms robots formation in the process of schlepping and turning was proposed based on the discussion of the robot kinematic model. In the condition of the wireless communication the master-slave robots can control their speed based on environmental information in order to keep the spacing between robots as well as the configuration of the serial formation in the process of turning. Finally, the simulation of Matlab for the serial formation verifies that the formation configuration keep unchanged, which also verifies the validity of the method.
Keywords :
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; radio networks; robot kinematics; velocity control; Matlab; environmental information; formation configuration; master-slave robots; robot kinematic model; robotic swarm formation handling; schlepping; serial swarm robots; speed control; swarm robot movement; turning process; wireless communication; Computers; Crawlers; Kinematics; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Turning; kinematics; serial formation; simulation; swarm robots;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems (GCIS), 2012 Third Global Congress on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3072-5
DOI :
10.1109/GCIS.2012.37