Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions

  • Authors:
  • Y. Uny Cao;Alex S. Fukunaga;Andrew Kahng

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596/ E-mail: yu&commat/cs.ucla.edu;Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099/ E-mail: alex.fukunaga&commat/jpl.nasa.gov;Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596/ E-mail: abk&commat/cs.ucla.edu

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

There has been increased research interest in systems composed ofmultiple autonomous mobile robots exhibiting cooperative behavior.Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with an aimto studying such issues as group architecture, resource conflict,origin of cooperation, learning, and geometric problems. As yet, fewapplications of cooperative robotics have been reported, and supportingtheory is still in its formative stages. In this paper, we give acritical survey of existing works and discuss open problems in thisfield, emphasizing the various theoretical issues that arisein the study of cooperative robotics. We describe the intellectualheritages that have guided early research, as well as possibleadditions to the set of existing motivations.