What is it about?
For fast exploration, teams robots have to work to together, so that they distribute the work and not do all the same. This means that the observations they make with their sensors have to be converted in information that is usefull for planning their actions. This could be done in a very general way, but with the MRESim we have try to find the middle-ground between what is realistic and what is the minimal / essential information.
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Why is it important?
Planning the actions of team of robots is essential in for instance warehouses, which are quite structured environments. When teams of robots are used at a disaster, the environment has lost most of its structure. One should be able to introduce the uncertainty from sensor observations towards the planning process, if one want s to use robots outside structured environments.
Perspectives
I participated both in the RoboCup Rescue agent competition, where the planning is hard but the sensor models simple, and the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robot competition, where the sensor models are complex but the planning realively simple. Thinking what would be a good middle-ground and what is essential (and what not) was a nice thought-experiment in this publication.
Dr. Arnoud Visser
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: MRESim, a Multi-robot Exploration Simulator for the Rescue Simulation League, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18615-3_9.
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