Communication Mechanism Study of a Multi-Robot Planetary Exploration System

Author

Zhang, Zheng ; Ma, Shugen ; Lu, Zhenli ; Cao, Binggang

Author_Institution

Robot. Lab., Shenyang Inst. of Autom., Shenyang

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

Communication mechanism is a key problem for multi-robot research. The communication characteristics of a reconfigurable planetary multi-robot system are analyzed. According to the function requirement of the multi-robot system, enlightened by the principle of TDMA (Time Division Multiple Address) and rotational mechanism, a novel multi-robot wireless communication mechanism is proposed. The mechanism and the communication protocol are also described in detail. Simulation and experimentation both prove the feasibility and practicability of the proposed mechanism.

Keywords

aerospace robotics; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; planetary rovers; time division multiple access; TDMA; communication protocol; multirobot wireless communication mechanism; reconfigurable multirobot planetary exploration system; rotational mechanism; time division multiple address; Biomimetics; Communication system control; Control systems; Mobile robots; Multirobot systems; Protocols; Robot kinematics; Robotics and automation; Wheels; Wireless communication; Communication mechanism; Multi-robot coordination; Planetary Exploration; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2006. ROBIO '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0570-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0571-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2006.340277

Filename

4141838