Local communication of multiple mobile robots: Design of optimal communication area for cooperative tasks

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 407-419

  Yoshida, Eiichi ^a   Arai, Tamio ^b   Yamamoto, Masakazu ^b   Ota, Jun ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBABILITY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032123703     PISSN: 07412223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4563(199807)15:7<407::AID-ROB3>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. D. W. Gage, "Sensor abstractions of support many-robot Systems," Proc. SPIE Mobile Robots VII Conference, 1992, Vol. 1831, pp. 235-246.
2. L. Steels, "Cooperation between distributed agents through self-organization," in Decentralized AI, Y. Demazeau and J.-P. Muller, eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 175-196.
3. M. Mataric, "Minimizing complexity in controlling a mobile robot population," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1992, pp. 830-835.
4. R. Beckers, O. E. Holland, and J.-L Deneubourg, "From local actions to global tasks: Stigmergy and collective robotics," in Artificial Live IV, R. A. Brooks and P. Maes, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994, pp. 181-189.
5. D. Kurabayashi, J. Ota, T. Arai, and E. Yoshida, "Cooperative sweeping by multiple mobile robots," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1996, pp. 1744-1749.
6. K. Sugihara and I. Suzuki, "Distributed algorithm for formation of geometric patterns with many mobile robots," J. Rob. Syst., 13, 127-139, 1996.
7. S. Ichikawa and F. Hara, "Experimental characteristics of multiple-robots behaviors in communication network expansion and object-fetching," in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2, H. Asama et al., eds. Springer, Berlin, 1996, pp. 224-234.
8. K. Singh and K. Fujimura, "Map making by cooperating mobile robots," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 2, 254-259, 1993.
9. G. Dudek, P. Freedman, and S. Hadjres, "Mapping in unknown graph-like worlds," J. Rob. Syst., 13, 539-559, 1996.
10. A. Drogoul and J. Ferber, "From Tom Thumb to the dockers: Some experiments with foraging robots," Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Simulation Adaptive Behavior, "From Animals to Animals 2," 1993, pp. 451-459.
11. M. Hashimoto, F. Oba, and T. Eguchi, "Dynamic control approach for motion coordination of multiple wheeled mobile robots transporting a single object," Proj. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Rob. Syst. (IROS '93), 1993, pp. 1944-1951.
12. D. J. Stilwell and J. S. Bay, "Optimal control for cooperative mobile robots bearing a common load," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom. 1994, pp. 58-63.
13. N. Miyata, J. Ota, T. Arai, E. Yoshida, D. Kurabayashi, J. Sasaki, and Y. Aiyama, "Cooperative transport with regrasping of torque-limited mobile robots," Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Rob. Syst. (IROS '96), 1996, pp. 304-309.
14. S. Yuta and J. Iijima, "State information panel for inter-processor communication in an autonomous mobile robot-controller," Proc. IEEE Workshop Intell. Rob. Syst., 1990.
15. A. Asama, M. K. Habib, I. Endo, K. Ozaki, A. Matsumoto, and Y. Ishida, "Functional distribution among multiple mobile robots in an autonomous and decentralized robot system," Proc. Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1991, pp. 1921-1926.
16. F. R. Noreils, "An architecture for cooperative and autonomous mobile robots," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1992, pp. 2703-2709.
17. J. Wang: "On Sign-board based inter-robot communication in distributed robotic systems," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1994, 1045-1050.
18. T. Ueyama, T. Fukuda, and F. Arai, "Approach for self-organization-behavior, communication and organization for cellular robotic system," Proc. Int. Symp. Distributed Autonomous Rob. Syst. DARS '92, 1992, pp. 77-84.
19. S. Suzuki, H. Asama, A. Uegaki, S. Kotosaka, T. Fujita, A. Matsumoto, H. Kaetsu, and I. Endo, "An infrared sensory system with local communication for cooperative multiple mobile robots," Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Rob. Syst. (IROS '95), 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 220-225.
20. T. Arai, H. Kimura, J. Ota, and D. Kurabayashi, "Real-time measuring system of relative position on mobile robot system," Proc. Int. Symp. Indust. Rob., 1993, pp. 931-938.
21. R. C. Arkin, T. Balch, and E. Nitz, "Communication of behavioral state in multi-agent retrieval tasks," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Rob. Autom., 1993, pp. 588-594.
22. H. Takagi and L. Kleinrock, "Optimal transmission ranges for randomly distributed packet radio terminals," IEEE Trans. Commun. COM-32, 246-257, 1984.
23. T. Arai, E. Yoshida, and J. Ota, "Information diffusion by local communication of multiple mobile robots," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Syst. Man Cybernet., 1993, Vol. 4, pp. 535-540.
24. R. M. Metcalfe and D. R. Boggs, "Ethernet: Distributed packet switching for local computer networks," Commun ACM, 19, 395-404, 1976.