A cooperative multi-robot approach to the mapping and exploration of mars

Authors:
Paul Rybski;Sascha Stoeter;Chris Wyman;Maria Gini
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Venue:
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Year:
1997

Citing 2
Cited 0

Sensor fusion in certainty grids for mobile robots

AI Magazine
Interference as a tool for designing and evaluating multi-robot controllers

AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.01

Visualization

Abstract

In the AAAI 1 "Life on Mars" competition this year, we intend to employ a multi-robot team which combines traditional methods of autonomous navigation with experimental group arbitration strategies to explore and map a simulated extra-terrestrial environment. By communicating with each other to optimize the search, the robots will be able to explore the environment faster than could a single robot. Group strategies will also be used to coordinate the robot's actions to optimize the retrieval of objects in the environment.