21 research outputs found
Applying MAPP Algorithm for Cooperative Path Finding in Urban Environments
The paper considers the problem of planning a set of non-conflict
trajectories for the coalition of intelligent agents (mobile robots). Two
divergent approaches, e.g. centralized and decentralized, are surveyed and
analyzed. Decentralized planner - MAPP is described and applied to the task of
finding trajectories for dozens UAVs performing nap-of-the-earth flight in
urban environments. Results of the experimental studies provide an opportunity
to claim that MAPP is a highly efficient planner for solving considered types
of tasks
A Multi-robot System Coordination Design and Analysis on Wall Follower Robot Group
In this research, multi-robot formation can be established according to the environment or workspace. Group of robots will move sequently if there is no space for robots to stand side by side. Leader robot will be on the front of all robots and follow the right wall. On the other hand, robots will move side by side if there is a large space between them. Leader robot will be tracked the wall on its right side and follow on it while every follower moves side by side. The leader robot have to broadcast the information to all robots in the group in radius 9 meters. Nevertheless, every robot should be received information from leader robot to define their movements in the area. The error provided by fuzzy output process which is caused by read data from ultrasound sensor will drive to more time process. More sampling can reduce the error but it will drive more execution time. Furthermore, coordination time will need longer time and delay. Formation will not be establisehed if packet error happened in the communication process because robot will execute wrong command
Prioritized Multi-agent Path Finding for Differential Drive Robots
Methods for centralized planning of the collision-free trajectories for a
fleet of mobile robots typically solve the discretized version of the problem
and rely on numerous simplifying assumptions, e.g. moves of uniform duration,
cardinal only translations, equal speed and size of the robots etc., thus the
resultant plans can not always be directly executed by the real robotic
systems. To mitigate this issue we suggest a set of modifications to the
prominent prioritized planner -- AA-SIPP(m) -- aimed at lifting the most
restrictive assumptions (syncronized translation only moves, equal size and
speed of the robots) and at providing robustness to the solutions. We evaluate
the suggested algorithm in simulation and on differential drive robots in
typical lab environment (indoor polygon with external video-based navigation
system). The results of the evaluation provide a clear evidence that the
algorithm scales well to large number of robots (up to hundreds in simulation)
and is able to produce solutions that are safely executed by the robots prone
to imperfect trajectory following. The video of the experiments can be found at
https://youtu.be/Fer_irn4BG0.Comment: This is a pre-print version of the paper accepted to ECMR 2019
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8870957