Complex Network Effects in Large Multi-robot Collaborate Information System
Pengfei Liu, Yunzhuo Liu, Ming Liu, Yang Xu · 2016
With the expansion of the multi-robot system, distributed coordination as its main organize mode. As a notable feature, robot can only interact with few of members in the local network, and connects with most of the others through network transmissions. Based on previous research, we found that, even if applied the same coordination strategy, different network topologies can direct and significantly affected the system coordination efficiency. In this paper, we analyzed how the complex network characteristics affect the cooperative communication and interaction in the multi-robot coordination. In addition, by analyzing the network properties, we proposed a network adjustment approach to enhance the coordination efficiency of multi-robot coordination.