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Decentralized Multi-Robot Information Gathering From Unknown Spatial Fields


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We present an incremental scalable motion planning algorithm for finding maximally informative trajectories for decentralized mobile robots. These robots are deployed to ...Show More

Abstract:

We present an incremental scalable motion planning algorithm for finding maximally informative trajectories for decentralized mobile robots. These robots are deployed to observe an unknown spatial field, where the informativeness of observations is specified as a density function. Existing works that are typically restricted to discrete domains and synchronous planning often scale poorly depending on the size of the problem. Our goal is to design a distributed control law in continuous domains and an asynchronous communication strategy to guide a team of cooperative robots to visit the most informative locations within a limited mission duration. Our proposed Asynchronous Information Gathering with Bayesian Optimization (AsyncIGBO) algorithm extends ideas from asynchronous Bayesian Optimization (BO) to efficiently sample from a density function. It then combines them with decentralized reactive motion planning techniques to achieve efficient multi-robot information gathering activities. We provide a theoretical justification for our algorithm by deriving an asymptotic no-regret analysis with respect to a known spatial field. Our proposed algorithm is extensively validated through simulation and real-world experiment results with multiple robots.
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 8, Issue: 5, May 2023)
Page(s): 3070 - 3077
Date of Publication: 05 April 2023

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