Estimating the minimum number of robots to finish given multi-objects task
Guo Li Ji, Bo Gao, Rongxin Cui, Shuzhi Sam Ge · 2011
In this paper, we propose a method that could solve the problem of estimating the minimum number of robots to finish the given multi-objects task. The criterion of estimating the robots includes the time consumption of motion on the trajectory and the work on the multi-objects. Our proposed method builds the roadmap to compute the cost of motion between objects and then builds the network with the motion and work cost. To satisfy the specified efficiency, the optimization algorithm of network is used to compute the minimum number of robots which can finish the task. An implementation example is presented and possible further research directions are presented as well.