Frontiers in Neurorobotics (Jun 2023)

Multi-robot cooperative autonomous exploration via task allocation in terrestrial environments

  • Xiangda Yan,
  • Zhe Zeng,
  • Keyan He,
  • Huajie Hong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2023.1179033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17

Abstract

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Cooperative autonomous exploration is a challenging task for multi-robot systems, which can cover larger areas in a shorter time or path length. Using multiple mobile robots for cooperative exploration of unknown environments can be more efficient than a single robot, but there are also many difficulties in multi-robot cooperative autonomous exploration. The key to successful multi-robot cooperative autonomous exploration is effective coordination between the robots. This paper designs a multi-robot cooperative autonomous exploration strategy for exploration tasks. Additionally, considering the fact that mobile robots are inevitably subject to failure in harsh conditions, we propose a self-healing cooperative autonomous exploration method that can recover from robot failures.

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