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JACIII Vol.16 No.3 pp. 462-468
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0462
(2012)

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Division of Iterative-Transportation Based on Local Observation by Multiple Mobile Robots

Yuichi Kobayashi*, Yuta Sato**, and Manabu Gouko***

*Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-14-16 Naka-cho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan

**The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, 1-1-3 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

***Tohoku Gakuin University, 1-13-1 Chuo, Tagajo, Miyagi 985-8537, Japan

Received:
October 6, 2011
Accepted:
February 3, 2012
Published:
May 20, 2012
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Keywords:
multiple robots, iterative transportation, decentralized control, local observation
Abstract
This paper deals with a framework of decentralized approach to division of labor by multiple mobile robots. An iterative-transportation task by multiple robots with multiple sets of starts (pick-up place of the object) and goals (put down place) is considered as the task. On each route between a start and a goal, the efficiency of transportation improves when the number of robots increases. Due to jams, however, excessive number of robots on the same route causes inefficiency. We propose a control law of each robot to choose an appropriate route so as to optimize the total efficiency of the transportation, where each robot utilizes information which can be obtained only by local observation (without any explicit communication among robots). The proposed control is based on the estimation of the number of robots on the routes in the future. In simulation, it was verified that the proposed control law realized 96% efficiency of the fully centralized control by appropriately choosing the route, compared with the case where global information can be utilized.
Cite this article as:
Y. Kobayashi, Y. Sato, and M. Gouko, “Division of Iterative-Transportation Based on Local Observation by Multiple Mobile Robots,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.16 No.3, pp. 462-468, 2012.
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