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Cooperative autonomous low-cost robots for exploring unknown environments

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In this paper we present the results obtained with a troup of small autonomous vehicles designed to cooperatively explore unknown environments. In order to improve the covering of the explored zone the vehicles show different behaviours. The host that controls the troup of vehicles generates the most plausible map of the environment from the information obtained by the different components of the troup, which at the end of their mission return back. To perform the map generation a two-step algorithm, fusion and completion, based on fuzzy techniques, is presented.

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  1. Automatic Control Department, UPC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep Amat

  2. IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

    Ramon López de Màntaras & Carles Sierra

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  1. Josep Amat
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Oussama Khatib J. Kenneth Salisbury

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Amat, J., López de Màntaras, R., Sierra, C. (1997). Cooperative autonomous low-cost robots for exploring unknown environments. In: Khatib, O., Salisbury, J.K. (eds) Experimental Robotics IV. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035195

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