Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems
Autonomous Robots
Frontier-based exploration using multiple robots
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Ad Hoc Networking
Keeping in touch: maintaining biconnected structure by homogeneous robots
AAAI'06 Proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Movement control algorithms for realization of fault-tolerant ad hoc robot networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A cluster-based approach for disturbed, spatialized, distributed information gathering systems
PRIMA'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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Maintaining the network connectivity in mobile Multi-Robot Systems (MRSs) is a key issue in many robotic applications. In our view, the solution to this problem consists of two main steps: (i) making robots aware of the network connectivity; and (ii), making use of this knowledge to plan robots tasks without compromising connectivity. In this paper, we view the ad-hoc network connectivity as an abstraction that is independent from application issues. We propose a new distributed algorithm executing on individual robots to build the connectivity-awareness. The correctness and theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm are given. We also show how our solution allows checking network bi-connectivity more efficiently than existing work and can be used, for example, during distributed control motion.