Abstract:
A team of small low cost robots instead of one big, complex robot is useful in operations such as search and rescue, urban exploration etc. However, the performance of su...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
A team of small low cost robots instead of one big, complex robot is useful in operations such as search and rescue, urban exploration etc. However, the performance of such a team is limited due to restricted mobility of the team members. We propose to overcome the mobility restrictions by physical cooperation among the team members. We carry out a feasibility analysis of a particular behavior of two robots cooperating to cross a gap. We simulate the dynamic equations describing the motion, which leads to the relaxation of the requirements derived from the static analysis. A decentralized control architecture is designed which avoids continuous communication between the robots thus rendering the cooperation to be simple and low cost.
Published in: Proceedings 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003) (Cat. No.03CH37453)
Date of Conference: 27-31 October 2003
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2003
Print ISBN:0-7803-7860-1