Exploiting
Control and Communications for Robust and Flexible Multi-Robot Coordination
The objective of this project is to
investigate a set of control and communication techniques for establishing and
maintaining communication connections among multiple collaborating mobile
robots, in response to varying communication conditions in practice, to ensure
robust and flexible multi-robot coordination. The approach is to exploit the
features of wireless communications and mobility of robots to significantly
increase the coverage and reliability of communications and the chance of
forming communication links among mobile robots.
This research addresses the critical challenge in the establishment and
maintenance of communication connections among collaborative mobile robots,
which is imposed by unstable communication conditions and the dynamic nature of
robots and environments. The intellectual merit lies in the transformative
development and integration of novel distributed control and communication
techniques for controlled communications, multi-robot motion, and wireless
signal search under unstable communication conditions and robot/task
constraints. The integrated application of these techniques will lead to robust
and efficient communication networking, high-freedom task operation and
exploration, and thus highly robust and flexible coordination among multiple
collaborative robots.
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