DocumentCode
2340757
Title
Robot coverage of terrain with non-uniform traversability
Author
Zheng, Xiaoming ; Koenig, Sven
Author_Institution
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
fYear
2007
fDate
Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007
Firstpage
3757
Lastpage
3764
Abstract
In this paper, we study how multiple robots can cover known terrain quickly. We extend Multi-Robot Forest Coverage, a state-of-the-art multi-robot coverage algorithm, from terrain with uniform traversability to terrain with non-uniform traversability, which is nontrivial. We prove that its cover times are at most about sixteen times larger than minimal and demonstrate experimentally that they are significantly smaller than those of an alternative multi-robot coverage algorithm.
Keywords
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; trees (mathematics); mobile robots; multirobot forest coverage; nonuniform traversability; spanning tree coverage; terrain coverage; Algorithm design and analysis; Cleaning; Computer science; Intelligent robots; Intrusion detection; Notice of Violation; Polynomials; USA Councils; Cell Decomposition; Multi-Robot Coverage; Robot Teams; Spanning Tree Coverage; Terrain Coverage.;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-0912-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-0912-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2007.4399423
Filename
4399423
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