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Autonomous Robots Sharing a Charging Station with no Communication: a Case Study

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This research focuses on the design of a group of self-sufficient mobile robots, such that a group of three robots can remain in operation and efficiently share a charging station, using simple mechanisms. An experimental bottom-up approach has been adopted in order to test various strategies to manage collective self-sufficiency, which rely upon low-level mechanisms such as non-direct communication and non-complex decision making.

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  1. France Telecom R et D, 38 du Gal Leclerc, 92131, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

    Francois Sempé

  2. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Angelica Muñoz & Alexis Drogoul

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  1. Advanced Engineering Center, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, 351-0198, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

    Hajime Asama (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division) (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division)

  2. Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, The Unviersity of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-8656, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamio Arai (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Micro System Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8603, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

    Toshio Fukuda (Professor) (Professor)

  4. Department of Intelligent Systems Graduate School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, 812-8581, Higaschi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tsutomu Hasegawa (Professor) (Professor)

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Sempé, F., Muñoz, A., Drogoul, A. (2002). Autonomous Robots Sharing a Charging Station with no Communication: a Case Study. In: Asama, H., Arai, T., Fukuda, T., Hasegawa, T. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65941-9_10

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