Multi-Robot Systems: A classication focused on coordination
Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi · 2015
o Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) are, nowadays, an im- portant research area within Robotics and Articial Intelligence and a growing number of systems has been recently presented in the literature. Since application domains and tasks that are faced by MRS are of increasing complexity, the ability of the robots to cooperate can be regarded as a fundamental feature. In this paper, we present a survey of the recent work in the area by specically examining the forms of cooperation and coordination realized in the MRS. In particular, we propose a new taxonomy for classication of the approaches to coordination in MRS and we describe some systems, which we consider representative in our taxonomy. We nally discuss the outcomes of our analysis and try to highlight future trends of the research on MRS.