Title :
Fleet size of robots for rescue missions
Author :
Caballero-Parga, D. ; Esteva, Santi ; Figueras, Albert
Author_Institution :
Agents Res. Lab., Univ. of Girona, Girona, Spain
Abstract :
How to solve the problem of exploration and map updating in disaster areas for survivors and rescue missions is a big challenge for research groups involved in this line. A nonlinear polynomial is described to determine the optimal fleet size of robots using the spatial characteristics of the building to explore. This spatial characteristics are extracted using Voronoi and Skeleton diagrams. The results obtained with this non-linear polynomial are tested simulating the behaviour of a robots team in different maps.
Keywords :
computational geometry; multi-robot systems; polynomials; service robots; Voronoi diagrams; nonlinear polynomials; rescue missions; robot fleet size; skeleton diagrams; spatial characteristics; Collaboration; Humans; Inspection; Laboratories; Mobile robots; Navigation; Polynomials; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Security; exploration; multi-robot systems; optimization; rescue; team size;
Conference_Titel :
Automation Quality and Testing Robotics (AQTR), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cluj-Napoca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6724-2
DOI :
10.1109/AQTR.2010.5520873
