Distributed navigation in an unknown physical environment
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Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Tracking and formation control of multiple autonomous agents: A two-level consensus approach
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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
Modeling Consciousness for Autonomous Robot Exploration
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Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping Using Self Biddings
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Efficient exploration of unknown indoor environments using a team of mobile robots
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Distributed multirobot exploration, mapping, and task allocation
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Multiple UAV exploration of an unknown region
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Rapid exploration of unknown areas through dynamic deployment of mobile and stationary sensor nodes
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
On fast exploration in 2D and 3D terrains with multiple robots
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KES '09 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: Part I
A Multi-agent Architecture for Multi-robot Surveillance
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Immunity-Based Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Multi-robot Cooperative Exploration
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Adaptively Coordinating Heterogeneous Robot Teams through Asynchronous Situated Coevolution
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Coordinated control of multiple mobile robots in pursuit-evasion games
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
Decentralized localization for dynamic and sparse robot networks
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
A protocol for decentralized multi-vehicle mapping with limited communication connectivity
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
3D mapping with multi-resolution occupied voxel lists
Autonomous Robots
Multi-robot team coordination through roles, positionings and coordinated procedures
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Multi-robot exploration and fire searching
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Simultaneous people tracking and localization for social robots using external laser range finders
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Motion control strategies for improved multi robot perception
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
An adaptive mobile robots tethering algorithm in constrained environments
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Enforcing Network Connectivity in Robot Team Missions
International Journal of Robotics Research
A hybrid solution to the multi-robot integrated exploration problem
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dynamic search spaces for coordinated autonomous marine search and tracking
IEA/AIE'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Industrial, engineering, and other applications of applied intelligent systems
Using robot mobility to exploit multipath fading
IEEE Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
International Journal of Robotics Research
Wall-following exploration with two cooperating mobile robots
ISPRA'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Signal processing, robotics and automation
Cooperative control through objective achievement
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Mathematical-based benchmarking and performance improvement for ANT exploration algorithm
ROBIO'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Robotics and biomimetics
Multi robotic exploration with communication requirement to a fixed base station
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Autonomous vehicle coordination with wireless sensor and actuator networks
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Self-organizing robot teams using asynchronous situated co-evolution
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New exploration strategy for cooperative mobile robots
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Fast frontier detection for robot exploration
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
Adaptive multi-robot team reconfiguration using a policy-reuse reinforcement learning approach
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
A two-level approach for multi-robot coordinated exploration of unstructured environments
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Multi-robot olfactory search in structured environments
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Robotic clusters: Multi-robot systems as computer clusters
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Robot exploration with fast frontier detection: theory and experiments
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Distributed value functions for the coordination of decentralized decision makers
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Priority based multi robot task assignment
ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part I
Efficient strategy for co-ordinated multirobot exploration
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology
MinPos: a novel frontier allocation algorithm for multi-robot exploration
ICIRA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications - Volume Part II
Quantitative and qualitative coordination for multi-robot systems
AICI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
Effects of Multi-Robot Team Formations on Distributed Area Coverage
International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research
Wireless Robotics: Opportunities and Challenges
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Optimization based coordinated UGV-MAV exploration for 2D augmented mapping
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Mapping a Network of Roads for an On-road Navigating Robot
Proceedings of Conference on Advances In Robotics
Rolling dispersion for robot teams
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
Towards a robust feedback system for coordinating a hierarchical multi-robot system
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Map partitioning to approximate an exploration strategy in mobile robotics
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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In this paper, we consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of robots. As in single-robot exploration the goal is to minimize the overall exploration time. The key problem to be solved in the context of multiple robots is to choose appropriate target points for the individual robots so that they simultaneously explore different regions of the environment. We present an approach for the coordination of multiple robots, which simultaneously takes into account the cost of reaching a target point and its utility. Whenever a target point is assigned to a specific robot, the utility of the unexplored area visible from this target position is reduced. In this way, different target locations are assigned to the individual robots. We furthermore describe how our algorithm can be extended to situations in which the communication range of the robots is limited. Our technique has been implemented and tested extensively in real-world experiments and simulation runs. The results demonstrate that our technique effectively distributes the robots over the environment and allows them to quickly accomplish their mission.