Theoretical Computer Science
ECAI '92 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Artificial intelligence
The computational complexity of propositional STRIPS planning
Artificial Intelligence
Complexity, decidability and undecidability results for domain-independent planning
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on planning and scheduling
Frontier-based exploration using multiple robots
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Marsupial-like mobile robot societies
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Fast planning through greedy action graphs
AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
A team of robotic agents for surveillance
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on heuristic search in artificial intelligence
Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions
Autonomous Robots
Heterogeneous Teams of Modular Robots for Mapping and Exploration
Autonomous Robots
A frontier-based approach for autonomous exploration
CIRA '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation
International Journal of Robotics Research
An approach to efficient planning with numerical fluents and multi-criteria plan quality
Artificial Intelligence
A Hybrid Approach to Intricate Motion, Manipulation and Task Planning
International Journal of Robotics Research
Efficient exploration of unknown indoor environments using a team of mobile robots
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Robotic Mapping and Exploration
Robotic Mapping and Exploration
Heterogeneous multirobot coordination with spatial and temporal constraints
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 3
The FF planning system: fast plan generation through heuristic search
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
PDDL2.1: an extension to PDDL for expressing temporal planning domains
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
The fast downward planning system
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Temporal planning using subgoal partitioning and resolution in SGPlan
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
LUNARES: lunar crater exploration with heterogeneous multi robot systems
Intelligent Service Robotics
The LAMA planner: guiding cost-based anytime planning with landmarks
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Coordinated multi-robot exploration
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
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The efficient coordination of a team of heterogeneous robots is an important requirement for exploration, rescue, and disaster recovery missions. In this paper, we present a novel approach to target assignment for heterogeneous teams of robots. It goes beyond existing target assignment algorithms in that it explicitly takes symbolic actions into account. Such actions include the deployment and retrieval of other robots or manipulation tasks. Our method integrates a temporal planning approach with a traditional cost-based planner. The proposed approach was implemented and evaluated in two distinct settings. First, we coordinated teams of marsupial robots. Such robots are able to deploy and pickup smaller robots. Second, we simulated a disaster scenario where the task is to clear blockades and reach certain critical locations in the environment. A similar setting was also investigated using a team of real robots. The results show that our approach outperforms ad-hoc extensions of state-of-the-art cost-based coordination methods and that the approach is able to efficiently coordinate teams of heterogeneous robots and to consider symbolic actions.