Multi-robot coordination through wireless sensor networks
Antonio Chella, Giuseppe Lo Re, Irene Macaluso, Marco Ortolani and Daniele Peri
The 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence - Special Track on AI and Robotics
Roma, Italy, September 10-13, 2007
Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of coordinating the operations of multiple robots in an indoor environment. The framework presented here uses a composite networking architecture, in which a hybrid wireless network, composed by commonly available WiFi devices, and the more recently developed wireless sensor networks. Such architecture grants robots to enhance their perceptive capabilities and to exchange information so as to coordinate actions in order to achieve a global common goal.
The proposed framework is described with reference to an experimental setup that extends a previously developed robotic tour guide application in the context of a multi-robot application.