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JRM Vol.35 No.4 pp. 948-956
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2023.p0948
(2023)

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Exploration of a Simple Navigation Method for Swarm Robots Pioneered by Heterogeneity

Yuichiro Sueoka ORCID Icon, Mitsuki Okada, Yusuke Tsunoda ORCID Icon, Yasuhiro Sugimoto ORCID Icon, and Koichi Osuka ORCID Icon

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Received:
February 20, 2023
Accepted:
May 18, 2023
Published:
August 20, 2023
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Keywords:
group navigation with heterogeneity, swarm robots, simple navigation
Abstract

In recent years, research has been conducted on swarm robot systems in which multiple autonomous mobile robots cooperate to perform tasks. Swarm robot systems are expected to perform high functionality as a group by cooperating with each other, in spite of the limited capabilities of the individual robots. This paper explores a method of simplifying swarm robot controllers as much as possible for swarm robot navigation. If we can achieve autonomous navigation of swarm robots to a target area with minimal resource consumption, they only need to implement the task execution function in that area. This leads to lower costs for swarm robot design and more efficient system architecture design. To address the above aims, this study focuses on heterogeneity. Specifically, we introduce a navigator robot that indirectly guides swarm robots named the worker robots. Heterogeneity in this paper refers to the worker robots and the navigator robots. We design the interaction between the navigator robot and the worker robots to provide a system that guides the worker robots to the destination.

Heterogeneity-based swarm robot navigation

Heterogeneity-based swarm robot navigation

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Y. Sueoka, M. Okada, Y. Tsunoda, Y. Sugimoto, and K. Osuka, “Exploration of a Simple Navigation Method for Swarm Robots Pioneered by Heterogeneity,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.35 No.4, pp. 948-956, 2023.
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