A Short-Range Infrared Communication for Swarm Mobile Robots

Author

Arvin, Farshad ; Samsudin, Khairulmizam ; Ramli, Abdul Rahman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Syst. Eng., Univ. of Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 May 2009

Firstpage

454

Lastpage

458

Abstract

This paper presents another short-range communication technique suitable for swarm mobile robots application. Infrared is used for transmitting and receiving data packets and obstacle detection. The infrared communication system is used for an autonomous mobile robot (UPM-AMR) that will be used as a low-cost platform for robotics research. A pulse-code modulation (PCM) digital scheme is used for transmitting data. The reflected infrared signal is also used for distance estimation for obstacle avoidance. Analysis of robotpsilas behaviors shows the feasibility of using infrared signals to obtain a reliable local communication between swarm mobile robots.

Keywords

collision avoidance; distance measurement; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; optical communication; optical modulation; pulse code modulation; PCM; autonomous swarm mobile robot application; distance estimation; obstacle avoidance; obstacle detection; pulse-code modulation digital scheme; short-range infrared communication system; Application software; Communication system control; Data communication; Infrared detectors; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Optical fiber communication; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Communication; Infrared; Mobile robots; PCM; Swarm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3654-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPS.2009.88

Filename

5166828