Coordinated multi-robot navigation using sectorization of environment
Wali Ullah Farooqui, Lokesh Chouhan · 2014
Coordinated approach for area exploration and navigation has been challenging to the researchers' community for last few decades. While exploring or navigation a team of robots area division for each robot, algorithm implemented and coordination among them have been challenging. Here, coordinated approach to navigate given environment to find best path to reach the goal, sectorization of the environment and further dividing in into co-centric circles have been proposed for navigation in which all robots select local goals satisfying minimum cost approach to reach their local goal. Further, shared memory approach at mother robot has been implemented to establish effective communication among the robots. The cost in terms of time of navigation to reach known target in an unknown environment has been taken into account to determine best possible path to the given target.