• 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