MULTI-ROBOT COVERAGE WITH DYNAMIC COVERAGE INFORMATION COMPRESSION

Zachary Wilson, Taylor Whipple, Prithviraj Dasgupta

2011

Abstract

We consider the problem of distributed terrain or area coverage of an initially unknown environment using a set of mobile robots. We describe a distributed algorithm that is able to solve the distributed coverage problem without having each robot exchange its complete coverage map with other robots. The central part of our technique is a compression algorithm used by a robot to approximate the regions that have been previously covered and a fitness function that calculates the degree of accuracy of the approximated coverage information. The operation of our coverage algorithm is evaluated through experiments on simulated as well as physical Corobot robots. We have quantified the extent of overhead introduced by our coverage algorithm to prevent robots from performing repeated coverage. Overall, our results show that the robots are able to cover the environment within different environment settings while significantly reducing the amount of coverage information communicated between different robots.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wilson Z., Whipple T. and Dasgupta P. (2011). MULTI-ROBOT COVERAGE WITH DYNAMIC COVERAGE INFORMATION COMPRESSION . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-75-1, pages 236-241. DOI: 10.5220/0003538202360241

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco11,
author={Zachary Wilson and Taylor Whipple and Prithviraj Dasgupta},
title={MULTI-ROBOT COVERAGE WITH DYNAMIC COVERAGE INFORMATION COMPRESSION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2011},
pages={236-241},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003538202360241},
isbn={978-989-8425-75-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - MULTI-ROBOT COVERAGE WITH DYNAMIC COVERAGE INFORMATION COMPRESSION
SN - 978-989-8425-75-1
AU - Wilson Z.
AU - Whipple T.
AU - Dasgupta P.
PY - 2011
SP - 236
EP - 241
DO - 10.5220/0003538202360241