Title
Local coordination diagrams for collision avoidance in multi-robot path planning
Date Issued
01 October 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
SUCAPUCA DIAZ, ANGEL J.
CORNEJO LUPA, MARIA ALEJANDRA
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Autonomous robots are intended to help humans performing a lot of different tasks in a safer and more efficient way. Some of those tasks must be solved by a group of autonomous robots. Also, when the task can be solved only by one robot, for cost constraints, it is cheaper (for development and maintenance) to implement solutions including a group of simple robots. Solutions including multiple robots have to solve group problems like communication and coordination; also, common problems of autonomous robots like the widely studied problem of Path Planning must be rethought. In this case, finding a collision-free path is not enough because each robot also has to avoid collisions with other robots (by coordinating their movements). In this scenario, the path planning problem turns into the multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) problem. There are two approaches for solving the MRMP problem: coupled and decoupled. This work is focused on the decoupled approach because it has the potential to solve MRMP not only in a centralized way but, also in a concurrent or distributed way. In this sense, a new parallelizable algorithm, called Local Coordination Diagrams - LCD, is presented in this paper. Experimental results show that our approach can be applied efficiently to a large number of robots.
Start page
335
End page
340
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Ingeniería mecánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85082175422
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2019 Latin American Robotics Symposium, 2019 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics and 2019 Workshop on Robotics in Education, LARS/SBR/WRE 2019
ISBN of the container
978-172814268-5
Conference
16th Latin American Robotics Symposium, 7th Brazilian Symposium on Robotics and 10th Workshop on Robotics in Education, LARS/SBR/WRE 2019 Rio Grande 23 October 2019 through 25 October 2019
Sources of information:
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