학술논문

A Distributed Heuristic for Energy-Efficient Multirobot Multiplace Rendezvous
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Robotics IEEE Trans. Robot. Robotics, IEEE Transactions on. 25(1):130-135 Feb, 2009
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Energy efficiency
Cost function
Mobile robots
Service robots
Size control
Robot motion
Motion planning
Multirobot systems
Animals
Euclidean distance
Mobile robot motion planning
multirobot systems
Language
ISSN
1552-3098
1941-0468
Abstract
We consider the problem of finding a set of trajectories for a heterogeneous group of mobile robots, such that a single service robot can rendezvous with every other member of the team in a prescribed order, and the total travel cost is minimized. We present a simple heuristic controller that runs independently on each robot, yet is guaranteed to achieve an approximation to global solution in bounded time linear in population size. Simulation experiments empirically show that the method finds approximated solutions of near-optimal quality on average.