Map Generation by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots inStructured Unknown Environments

  • Authors:
  • M. López-Sánchez;F. Esteva;R. López de Màntaras;C. Sierra;J. Amat

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute IIIA, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.;Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, c/Pau Gargallo, 5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: amat@esaii.upc.es

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots - Special issue on autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper we present some results obtained with a troupeof low-cost robots designed to cooperatively explore unknownstructured orthogonal environments. In order to improve the coveringof the explored zone the robots show different behaviours (routine,normal and anxious) and cooperate by transferring each other theperceived environment when they meet; therefore, not all theinformation of the non-returning robots is lost provided that they hadencountered robots that safely returned. The returning robots deliverto a host their perceived and communicated (by other robots) partialmaps and the host incrementally generates the most plausible map ofthe environment. To perform the map generation, a fusion, completionand alignment process of the partial maps, based on fuzzy techniques,has been developed.