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RFID-Based Exploration for Large Robot Teams

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RFID-Based Exploration for Large Robot Teams
Abstract— To coordinate a team of robots for exploration is a challenging problem, particularly in large areas as for example the devastated area after a disaster. This problem can generally be decomposed into task assignment and multi-robot path planning. In this paper, we address both problems jointly. This is possible because we reduce significantly the size of the search space by utilizing RFID tags as coordination points. The exploration approach consists of two parts: a stand-alone distributed local search and a global monitoring process which can be used to restart the local search in more convenient locations. Our results show that the local exploration works for large robot teams, particularly if there are limited computational resources. Experiments with the global approach showed that the number of conflicts can be reduced, and that the global coordination mechanism increases significantly the explored area.
Vittorio A. Ziparo, Alexander Kleiner, Bernhard Ne
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ICRA
Authors Vittorio A. Ziparo, Alexander Kleiner, Bernhard Nebel, Daniele Nardi
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