On multi-vehicle rendezvous under quantized communication
Fabio Fagnani, Karl Henrik Johansson, Alberto Speranzon, Sandro Zampieri · 2004
A rendezvous problem for a team of autonomous vehicles, which communicate over quantized channels, is analyzed. The paper illustrates how communication topologies based on uniform and logarithmic quantizations influence the performance. Since a logarithmic quantizer in general imposes fewer bits to be communicated compared to a uniform quantizer, the results indicate estimates of lower limits on the amount of information that needs to be exchanged in order for the vehicles to meet. Simulation examples illustrate the results. 1