A Critical Review of Communications in Multi-robot Systems. [PDF]
Curr Robot Rep, 2022 This review summarizes the broad roles that communication formats and technologies have played in enabling multi-robot systems. We approach this field from two perspectives: of robotic applications that need communication capabilities in order to ...
Gielis J, Shankar A, Prorok A.
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Multi-Robot Systems and Cooperative Object Transport: Communications, Platforms, and Challenges
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2023 Multi-robot systems gain considerable attention due to lower cost, better robustness, and higher scalability as compared with single-robot systems. Cooperative object transport, as a well-known use case of multi-robot systems, shows great potential in ...
Xing An +5 more
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Balancing Collective Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Agent and Multi-Robot Systems: A Review. [PDF]
Front Robot AI, 2021 Multi-agent systems and multi-robot systems have been recognized as unique solutions to complex dynamic tasks distributed in space. Their effectiveness in accomplishing these tasks rests upon the design of cooperative control strategies, which is ...
Kwa HL, Leong Kit J, Bouffanais R.
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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023 Multi-robot systems are experiencing increasing popularity in joint rescue, intelligent transportation, and other fields. However, path planning and navigation obstacle avoidance among multiple robots, as well as dynamic environments, raise significant ...
Zhen Yang +5 more
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Cooperative Object Transport in Multi-Robot Systems: A Review of the State-of-the-Art. [PDF]
Front Robot AI, 2018 In recent years, there has been a growing interest in designing multi-robot systems (hereafter MRSs) to provide cost effective, fault-tolerant and reliable solutions to a variety of automated applications.
Tuci E, Alkilabi MHM, Akanyeti O.
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Passivity based nonlinear model predictive control (PNMPC) of multi-robot systems for space applications [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 In the past 2 decades, there has been increasing interest in autonomous multi-robot systems for space use. They can assemble space structures and provide services for other space assets.
Serdar Kalaycioglu, Anton De Ruiter
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Symbiotic Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems with Remote Obstacle Knowledge Sharing. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2017 Large scale operational areas often require multiple service robots for coverage and task parallelism. In such scenarios, each robot keeps its individual map of the environment and serves specific areas of the map at different times.
Ravankar A +3 more
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Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Multi-Robot Systems: A Survey. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2019 The use of robots has increased significantly in the recent years; rapidly expending to numerous applications. These sophisticated machines are susceptible to different types of faults that might endanger the robot or its surroundings.
Khalastchi E, Kalech M.
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Real-Time 6D Pose Estimation and Multi-Target Tracking for Low-Cost Multi-Robot System [PDF]
SensorsIn the research field of multi-robot cooperation, reliable and low-cost motion capture is crucial for system development and validation. To address the high costs of traditional motion capture systems, this study proposes a real-time 6D pose estimation ...
Bo Shan +3 more
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Swarm-SLAM: Sparse Decentralized Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Framework for Multi-Robot Systems [PDF]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 Collaborative Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (C-SLAM) is a vital component for successful multi-robot operations in environments without an external positioning system, such as indoors, underground or underwater.
Pierre-Yves Lajoie, G. Beltrame
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