Visibility-Based Distributed Deployment of Robotic Teams in Polyhedral Terrains
Aaron Ma, Jorge Cortés · Volume 2: Mechatronics; Mechatronics and Controls in Advanced Manufacturing; Modeling and Control of Automotive Systems and Combustion Engines; Modeling and Validation; Motion and Vibration Control Applications; Multi-Agent and Networked Systems; Path Planning and Motion Control; Robot Manipulators; Sensors and Actuators; Tracking Control Systems; Uncertain Systems and Robustness; Unmanned, Ground and Surface Robotics; Vehicle Dynamic Controls; Vehicle Dynamics and Traffic Control · 2016
This paper presents deployment strategies for a team of multiple mobile robots with line-of-sight visibility in 1.5D and 2.5D terrain environments. Our objective is to distributively achieve full visibility of a polyhedral environment. In the 1.5D polyhedral terrain, we achieve this by determining a set of locations that the robots can distributively occupy. In the 2.5D polyhedral terrain, we achieve full visibility by simultaneously exploring, coloring, and guarding the environment.