Coordinated deployment of multiple, heterogeneous robots
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 2254 - 2260, October, 2000
Abstract
To be truly useful, mobile robots need to be fairly autonomous and easy to control. This is especially true in situations where multiple robots are used, due to the increase in sensory information and the fact that the robots can interfere with one another. The paper describes a system that integrates autonomous navigation, a task executive, task planning, and an intuitive graphical user interface to control multiple, heterogeneous robots. We have demonstrated a prototype system that plans and coordinates the deployment of teams of robots. Testing has shown the effectiveness and robustness of the system, and of the coordination strategies in particular.
BibTeX
@conference{Simmons-2000-122325,author = {R. Simmons and D. Apfelbaum and D. Fox and R. P. Goldman and K. Z. Haigh and D. J. Musliner and M. Pelican and S. Thrun},
title = {Coordinated deployment of multiple, heterogeneous robots},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2000},
month = {October},
volume = {3},
pages = {2254 - 2260},
}
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