Energy efficient robot rendezvous

Proceedings - Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 139-146

  Zebrowski, Pawel ^a   Litus, Yaroslav ^a   Vaughan, Richard T ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; INTER-ROBOT COMMUNICATION; NUMERICAL SIMPLEX MINIMIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34548739670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2007.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. H. Ando, Y. Oasa, I. Suzuki, and M. Yamashita. A distributed memory less point convergence algorithm for mobile robots with limited visibility. 15(5):818-828, 1999.
2. J. Borenstein and Y. Koren. The vector field histogram - fast obstacle avoidance for mobile robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 7(3):278-288, 1991.
3. F. Bourgault, A. Makarenko, S. Williams, B. Grocholsky, and H. Durrant-Whyte. Information based adaptive robotic exploration. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2002.
4. J. Cortes, S. Martinez, and F. Bullo. Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions. 51(8):1289-1298, 2006.
5. G. Dudek and N. Roy. Multi-robot rendezvous in unknown environments, or, what to do when you're lost at the zoo. In Proceedings of the AAAI National Conference Workshop on Online Search, Providence, Rhode Island, July 1997.
6. B. Gerkey, R. Vaughan, K. Stoy, A. Howard, G. Sukhatme, and M. Matarić. Most valuable player: A robot device server for distributed control, 2001.
7. S. Gueron and R. Tessler. The fermat-steiner problem. The American Mathematical Monthly, 109(5):55-129, May 2002.
8. A. M. J. Lin and B. D. O. Anderson. The multi-agent rendezvous problem. In Proceedings of 42th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Maui,Hawaii, 2003.
9. Y. Kupitz and H. Martini. Geometric aspects of the generalized fermat-torricelli problem. Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, 6:55-129, 1997.
10. M. A. Lanthier, D. Nussbaum, and T.-J. Wang. Calculating the meeting point of scattered robots on weighted terrain surfaces. In CATS '05: Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian symposium on Theory of computing, pages 107-118, Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia, 2005. Australian Computer Society, Inc.
11. Y. Litus, R. T. Vaughan, and P. Zebrowski. The frugal feeding problem: Energy-efficient, multi-robot, multi-place rendezvous. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2007.
12. J. H. Mathews and K. K. Fink. Numerical Methods Using Matlab. Prentice-Hall Inc., 4 edition, 2004.
13. G. Polya. Mathematics and plausible reasoning, 2 vols. Princeton, 2 edition, 1968. vol 1. Induction and analogy in mathematics; vol 2. Patterns of plausible inference.
14. J. Rosen and G.-L. Xue. Computational comparison of two algorithms for the euclidean single facility location problem. ORSA Journal on Computing, 3(3), 1991.
15. K. Schlude. From robotics to facility location: Contraction functions, 2003.
16. S. Smith, M. Broucke, and B. Francis. Curve shortening and the rendezvous problem for mobile autonomous robots. 2005. Under revision.
17. C. Wang. On the convergence and rate of convergence of an iterative algorithm for the plant location problem. Qufu Shiyun Xuebao, 2, 1975.
18. P. Zebrowski and R. Vaughan. Recharging robot teams: A tanker approach. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, Washington, July 2005.
19. M. Zuluaga and R. Vaughan. Reducing spatial interference in robot teams by local-investment aggression. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Alberta, August 2005.