Title :
Multi-agent missions planning for mobile manipulators
Author :
Hentout, A. ; Bouzouia, B. ; Toumi, R.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Comput.-Integrated Manuf. & Robot. (DPR), Centre for Dev. of Adv. Technol. (CDTA), Algiers, Algeria
Abstract :
A mobile manipulator is composed of heterogeneous resources (mobile base, manipulator, etc.). Consequently, each resource can carry out a different set of operations. In the case where each resource is controlled by an agent (so a multi-agent control architecture), a multi-agent heterogeneous planning is required to generate the operations plan. When the operator of the robot introduces a mission, the various agents of the architecture elaborate, jointly, for each agent controlling a resource, a different operations plan. Operations plans are presented for different multi-agent missions implemented on RobuTER/ULM.
Keywords :
manipulators; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; path planning; RobuTER/ULM; mobile manipulator; multi-agent heterogeneous planning; multi-agent missions; Manipulators; Mobile communication; Planning; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Heterogeneous planning; Mobile Manipulators; Multi-agent mission planning; RobuTER/ULM;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9319-7
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2010.5723471