A representation model which integrates noisy measurements obtained with range sensors at different instant times or locations, so as to accumulate statistical evidence about the occupancy of a 3-D environment.
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Sharing Information Efficiently in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Rui Rocha (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Jorge Dias (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch085
Abstract
Multi-robot systems (MRS) are sets of intelligent and autonomous mobile robots that are assumed to cooperate in order to carry out collective missions (Arai, Pagello, & Parker, 2002; Cao, Fukunaga, & Kahng, 1997; Rocha, Dias, & Carvalho, 2005). Due to the expendability of individual robots, MRS may substitute humans in risky scenarios (Maimone et al., 1998; Mataric & Sukhatme, 2001; Parker, 1998; Thrun et al. 2003). In other scenarios, they may relieve people from collective tasks that are intrinsically monotonous and repetitive. MRS are the solution to automate missions that are either inherently distributed in time, space, or functionality.