May
2002
A Layered Architecture for Coordination of Mobile Robots
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Abstract:
This paper presents an architecture that enables multiple robots to explicitly coordinate actions at multiple levels of abstraction. In particular, we are developing an extension to the traditional three-layered robot architecture that enables robots to interact directly at each layer -- at the behavioral level, the robots can create distributed control loops; at the executive level, they can synchronize task execution; at the planning level, we are investigating the use of market-based techniques for team formation, resource allocation, and role assignment. We illustrate these ideas through applications in multi-robot assembly, multi-robot deployment, and multi-robot mapping.
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@workshop{Simmons-2002-8448,
author = {Reid Simmons And Trey Smith And M. Bernardine Dias And Dani Goldberg And David Hershberger And Anthony (Tony) Stentz And Robert Michael Zlot},
title = {A Layered Architecture for Coordination of Mobile Robots},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 1st NRL Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems},
year = {2002},
month = {May},
pages = {103 - 112},
keywords = {Multi-robot coordination, robot architecture, task-level control},
}
author = {Reid Simmons And Trey Smith And M. Bernardine Dias And Dani Goldberg And David Hershberger And Anthony (Tony) Stentz And Robert Michael Zlot},
title = {A Layered Architecture for Coordination of Mobile Robots},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 1st NRL Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems},
year = {2002},
month = {May},
pages = {103 - 112},
keywords = {Multi-robot coordination, robot architecture, task-level control},
}