Colony of Robots for Exploration Based on Multi-Agent System
Author(s) -
Ian Hughes,
Ginno Millán,
Claudio Cubillos,
Gastón Lefranc
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of computers communications and control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.422
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1841-9844
pISSN - 1841-9836
DOI - 10.15837/ijccc.2014.6.1475
Subject(s) - computer science , robot , global positioning system , quadcopter , mobile robot , real time computing , artificial intelligence , human–computer interaction , telecommunications , engineering , aerospace engineering
In this paper a colony of robots for closed environments exploration is presented. This small colony of robots, conformed by mobile robots and a quadcopter, is based on heterogeneous Multi-Agent System (MAS). The objective of the system is to quickly recognize a closed three-dimensional environment, without access to references such as a Global Positioning System (GPS), to perform exploration of each unit with different characteristics and perform a joint recognition. All communications work wirelessly with a system responsible of data collection, tracking and managing ll collected information. Finally, it provides a basis for multi-agent robots which allow recognition, mapping and information gathering in places where units are efficiently deployed the entire colony’s abilities.
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