DeRP: 情報制限環境における再帰的分岐を用いた電力供給ネットワークの自己組織化アルゴリズム
DeRP: An Algorithm for Self-Assembly of Power-Delivery Networks using Recursive Branching in Information-Limited Environments
ロボット群が局所通信と方位センシングのみを用いて、電源から複数のシンクへ電力を供給するネットワークを自己組織化的に構築するアルゴリズムを提案した。
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著者: Mohammadali Rashidioun, Sangwoo Park, Petras Swissler
分類: cs.RO
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Delivering sustained power to distributed equipment in unstructured field environments using pre-planned wired networks or battery-based solutions presents significant infrastructure and logistics challenges. This paper presents Dendritic Recursive Pivoting (DeRP), a decentralized framework for multi-target network formation in robot swarms based solely on local communication and bearing-based sensing toward sinks. We envision a system in which robots, acting as a conduit, self-assemble a power network from a common source, forming branches at locally selected pivot points that approximate the Steiner points of Steiner trees to efficiently route to multiple Sinks. This branching operation is performed recursively to enable scalable and adaptive network formation without global planning. The proposed method is evaluated in terms of the total network length and estimated power loss, and is quantitatively compared against global baselines such as the Minimum Spanning Tree and Steiner tree solutions (GeoSteiner), which require complete knowledge of Sink locations. Specifically, we found that the networks formed by DeRP asymptotically form approximately 125\% of the global minimum length while reducing power losses to 65\% relative to Euclidean Steiner trees. In addition, we empirically characterize scaling behavior by measuring simulation completion time as the number of Sinks and robots increases, and find that this scaling was sub-linear for up to 100 sinks. The proposed approach enables resilient, adaptive power delivery in environments where deployment of traditional infrastructure is challenging.