Toward the Concept of Robot Society: A Multi-Robot SLAM Case Study

M. S. Couceiro, A. R. Lopes, N. M. Ferreira, A. G. Ferreira and R. Rocha

In N. M. F. Ferreira, J. A. Tenreiro Machado (editors), Mathematical Methods in Engineering, Springer Verlag, pp. 57-66, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-94-007-7182-6, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7183-3_6.

Abstract

Over time, biological societies such as humans, ants or bees have shown us the advantages inherent to the collective work. It is based on such results that many researchers have been trying to successfully develop new approaches in Multi-Robot Systems. Nevertheless, several assumptions need to be assured for collective work to emerge. In this paper, it is presented the significance and the advantages of cooperation in the different societies bridging the gap to the concept of robot society. In order to compare the advantages of cooperative robots, it is considered essential the development of computational simulation based on the robotic cooperation in un-structured environments. Hence, a Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Map-ping (SLAM) using Rao-Blackwellized particle filter is implemented in a simulation environment developed in the Player / Stage platform for robot and sensor applications.

Index Terms — Robot, society, cooperation, multi-robot SLAM.

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@INCOLLECTION(Couceiro_et_al_14a,

AUTHOR = "Couceiro, M. S. and Lopes, A. R. and Ferreira, N. M. and Ferreira, A. G. and Rocha, R.",

TITLE = "Toward the Concept of Robot Society: A Multi-Robot \textsc{SLAM} Case Study",

BOOKTITLE = "Mathematical Methods in Engineering",

PUBLISHER = "Springer Verlag",

YEAR = "2014",

EDITOR = "Ferreira, N. M. F. and Tenreiro Machado, J. A.",

PAGES = "57-66"

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