Title :
A basic principle and examinations of an autonomous deployment control method for a super-mechano colony
Author :
Tsubaki, Megumi ; Matsuo, Yoshiki
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
A super-mechano colony (SMC) is a multirobot system comprising a mother ship and numerous child robots. The key concept of an SMC is to introduce centralized features to distributed autonomous robotic systems. In this presentation, a new control method is described and examined for an SMC to autonomously perform effective object retrieval missions utilizing these centralized features.
Keywords :
materials handling; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; SMC; autonomous deployment control method; child robots; distributed autonomous robotic systems; mother ship; multirobot system; object retrieval missions; super-mechano colony; Central Processing Unit; Centralized control; Control systems; Information processing; Information retrieval; Marine vehicles; Multirobot systems; Robots; Sliding mode control; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7631-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2002.1195200
