Robotics: Science and Systems II

Distributed Coverage Control with Sensory Feedback for Networked Robots

M. Schwager, J. McLurkin, D. Rus

Abstract: This paper presents a control strategy that allows a group of robots to position themselves to optimize the measurement of sensory information in the environment. Robots use local information to estimate a sensory scalar field. Their estimate is then used to drive the network to a desirable placement configuration using a decentralized control law. We formulate the problem, provide a practical control solution, and present the results of numerical simulations.We then discuss experiments carried out on a swarm of mobile robots.

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Bibtex:

@INPROCEEDINGS{ Schwager-RSS-06,
	AUTHOR    = {M. Schwager and J. McLurkin and D. Rus},
	TITLE     = {Distributed Coverage Control with Sensory Feedback for Networked Robots},
	BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems},
	YEAR      = {2006},
        ADDRESS   = {Philadelphia, USA},
        MONTH     = {August}
}