A Survey and Analysis of Multi-Robot Coordination

By Zhi Yan, Nicolas Jouandeau, Arab Ali Chérif. 2013

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In the field of mobile robotics, the study of multi-robot systems (MRSs) has grown significantly in size and importance in recent years. Having made great progress in the development of the basic problems concerning single-robot control, many researchers shifted their focus to the study of multi-robot coordination. This paper presents a systematic survey and analysis of the existing literature on coordination, especially in multiple mobile robot systems (MMRSs). A series of related problems have been reviewed, which include a communication mechanism, a planning strategy and a decision-making structure. A brief conclusion and further research perspectives are given at the end of the paper.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanical Engineering

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• Trustworthy artificial intelligence (2020, background): “Research on AI autonomy is diverse and involves, for example, the autonomy of robots (Noorman and Johnson 2014), human-robot interactions (Goodrich and Schultz 2007), or the coordination of several autonomous agents (Yan et al. 2013).”
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