INTERFERENCE REDUCTION THROUGH TASK PARTITIONING IN A ROBOTIC SWARM - Or: "Don't you Step on My Blue Suede Shoes!"

Giovanni Pini, Arne Brutschy, Mauro Birattari, Marco Dorigo

2009

Abstract

This article studies the use of task partitioning as a way to reduce interference in a spatially constrained harvesting task. Interference is one of the key problems in large cooperating groups. We present a simple method to allocate individuals of a robotic swarm to a partitioned task, and show that task partitioning can increase system performance by reducing sources of interference. The method is experimentally studied, both in an environment with a narrow area and an environment without this constraint. The results are analyzed and compared to the case in which task partitioning is not employed.

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Pini G., Brutschy A., Birattari M. and Dorigo M. (2009). INTERFERENCE REDUCTION THROUGH TASK PARTITIONING IN A ROBOTIC SWARM - Or: "Don't you Step on My Blue Suede Shoes!" . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-674-000-9, pages 52-59. DOI: 10.5220/0002195200520059

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@conference{icinco09,
author={Giovanni Pini and Arne Brutschy and Mauro Birattari and Marco Dorigo},
title={INTERFERENCE REDUCTION THROUGH TASK PARTITIONING IN A ROBOTIC SWARM - Or: "Don't you Step on My Blue Suede Shoes!"},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={52-59},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002195200520059},
isbn={978-989-674-000-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - INTERFERENCE REDUCTION THROUGH TASK PARTITIONING IN A ROBOTIC SWARM - Or: "Don't you Step on My Blue Suede Shoes!"
SN - 978-989-674-000-9
AU - Pini G.
AU - Brutschy A.
AU - Birattari M.
AU - Dorigo M.
PY - 2009
SP - 52
EP - 59
DO - 10.5220/0002195200520059