Experiments in sensing and communication for robot convoy navigation

Author

Dudek, G. ; Jenkin, M. ; Milios, E. ; Wilkes, D.

Author_Institution

Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

5-9 Aug 1995

Firstpage

268

Abstract

This paper deals with coordinating behaviour in a multi-autonomous robot system. When two or more autonomous robots must interact in order to accomplish some common goal, communication between the robots is essential. Different inter-robot communications strategies give rise to different overall system performance and reliability. After a brief consideration of some theoretical approaches to multiple robot collections, we present concrete implementations of different strategies for convoy-like behaviour. The convoy system is based around two RWI B12 mobile robots and uses only passive visual sensing for inter-robot communication. The issues related to different communication strategies are considered

Keywords

cooperative systems; data communication; intelligent control; mobile robots; navigation; path planning; robot vision; RWI B12 mobile robots; autonomous mobile robots; inter-robot communications; multiple robots; passive visual sensing; robot convoy navigation; Communication system control; Concrete; Context; Fault tolerance; Intelligent robots; Machine intelligence; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; System performance; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems 95. 'Human Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots', Proceedings. 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1995.526171

Filename

526171