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Robust Multirobot Coordination in Dynamic Environments
M.B. Dias, M.B. Zinck, R.M. Zlot, and A. Stentz
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, April, 2004, pp. 3435 - 3442.

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Robustness is crucial for any robot team, especially when operating in dynamic environments. The physicality of robotic systems and their interactions with the environment make them highly prone to malfunctions of many kinds. Three principal categories in the possible space of robot malfunctions are communication failures, partial failure of robot resources necessary for task execution (or partial robot malfunction), and complete robot failure (or robot death). This paper addresses these three categories and explores means by which the TraderBots approach ensures robustness and promotes graceful degradation in team performance when faced with malfunctions.

Sponsor: DARPA and NASA

Associated center: FRC

Number of pages: 8

M.B. Dias, M.B. Zinck, R.M. Zlot, and A. Stentz, "Robust Multirobot Coordination in Dynamic Environments," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, April, 2004, pp. 3435 - 3442.

@inproceedings{Dias_2004_4745,
   author = "M Bernardine Dias and Marc B Zinck and Robert Michael Zlot and Anthony (Tony) Stentz",
   title = "Robust Multirobot Coordination in Dynamic Environments",
   booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
   month = "April",
   year = "2004",
   volume = "4",
   pages = "3435 - 3442"
}