Levels of Multi-robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Levels of Multi-robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments

Colin McMillen, Paul Rybski, and Manuela Veloso
Workshop Paper, 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, pp. 53 - 64, March, 2005

Abstract

RoboCup, the international robot soccer competition, poses a set of extremely difficult challenges for multi-robot systems. To be competitive in RoboCup’s rapidly-changing, dynamic, adversarial environment, teams need to make use of effective coordination strategies. We describe some of our experiences with effective coordination of robots teams and introduce several levels of strategies which encapsulate coordination from the level of individual robots to synchronized coordination of the entire team.

BibTeX

@workshop{McMillen-2005-9115,
author = {Colin McMillen and Paul Rybski and Manuela Veloso},
title = {Levels of Multi-robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems},
year = {2005},
month = {March},
editor = {Lynne E. Parker, Frank E. Schneider, Alan C. Schultz},
pages = {53 - 64},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands},
keywords = {Adversarial environments, robot soccer, multi-robot coordination},
}