Parker / Schneider / Schultz Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III

Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-3389-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 299 Seiten, eBook

This proceedings volume documents recent cutting-edge developments in multi-robot systems research. This volume is the result of the Third International workshop on Multi-Robot Systems that was held in March 2005 at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. This workshop brought together top researchers working in areas relevant to designing teams of autonomous vehicles, including robots and unmanned ground, air, surface, and undersea vehicles. The workshop focused on the challenging issues of team architectures, vehicle learning and adaptation, heterogeneous group control and cooperation, task selection, dynamic autonomy, mixed initiative, and human and robot team interaction. A broad range of applications of this technology are presented in this volume, including UCAVS (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles), micro-air vehicles, UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles), UGVs (Unmanned Ground vehicles), planetary exploration, assembly in space, clean-up, and urban search and rescue. This proceedings volume represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and serves as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Lynne E.

Schneider, Frank E.

Schultz, Alan C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Task Allocation.- The Generation of Bidding Rules for Auction-Based Robot Coordination.- Issues in Multi-Robot Coalition Formation.- Sensor Network-Mediated Multi-Robot Task Allocation.- Coordination in Dynamic Environments.- Multi-Objective Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems.- Levels of Multi-Robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments.- Parallel Stochastic Hill- Climbing with Small Teams.- Toward Versatility of Multi-Robot Systems.- Information / Sensor Sharing and Fusion.- Decentralized Communication Strategies for Coordinated Multi-Agent Policies.- Improving Multirobot Multitarget Tracking by Communicating Negative Information.- Enabling Autonomous Sensor-Sharing for Tightly-Coupled Cooperative Tasks.- Distributed Mapping and Coverage.- Merging Partial Maps Without Using Odometry.- Distributed Coverage of Unknown/Unstructured Environments by Mobile Sensor Networks.- Motion Planning and Control.- Real-Time Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Safe Dynamics.- A Multi-Robot Testbed for Biologically-Inspired Cooperative Control.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Task Switching and Multi-Robot Teams.- User Modelling for Principled Sliding Autonomy in Human-Robot Teams.- Applications.- Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing.- Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments.- Precision Manipulation with Cooperative Robots.- Poster Short Papers.- A Robust Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Multi-Robot Localization.- A Dialogue-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Team Control.- Hybrid Free-Space Optics/Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) Networks for Mobile Robot Teams.- Swarming UAVS Behavior Hierarchy.- The Gnats — Low-Cost Embedded Networks for Supporting Mobile Robots.- Role Based Operations.- Ergodic Dynamics by Design: A Route to Predictable Multi-Robot Systems.