Planning to Fail – Using Reliability to Improve Multirobot Task Allocation
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XII, Vol. 7693, May, 2010
Abstract
The reliability of individual robots influences the success of multirobot missions. When one robot fails, others must be retasked to complete the failed robot’s tasks. This increases the failure likelihood for these other robots. Existing multirobot task allocation systems consider robot failures only after the fact, via replanning. In this paper we show that mission performance for multirobot missions can be improved by using knowledge of robot failure rates to inform the initial task allocation.
BibTeX
@conference{Stancliff-2010-10427,author = {Stephen B. Stancliff and John M. Dolan},
title = {Planning to Fail - Using Reliability to Improve Multirobot Task Allocation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XII},
year = {2010},
month = {May},
volume = {7693},
keywords = {mobile robots, multirobot systems, reliability, task allocation, mission planning},
}
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