適応的通信ウィンドウを用いた通信制約下のマルチロボット探索
Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration With Adaptive Communication Windows
通信が断続的な環境で、ロボットが通信の価値とコストを評価し、探索と情報共有のバランスを取る分散探索フレームワークMACEを提案。シミュレーションで探索時間を最大23%削減。
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著者: Ben Rossano, Jaein Lim, Jonathan P. How
分類: cs.RO
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Exploring unknown environments with multi-robot teams can improve efficiency by allowing robots to explore in parallel. However, realizing these gains requires effective information sharing. When communication is intermittent, robots must balance the benefits of sharing information against the cost of diverting from exploration to establish communication. This paper introduces MACE, a decentralized exploration framework that actively evaluates whether establishing communication is worthwhile. At scheduled communication windows, robots estimate the cost of reaching previously identified communication locations. By formulating this decision as a variant of the Vehicle Orienteering Problem, robots evaluate routes based on the travel required to establish communication and the exploration that can be completed along the way. This approach enables robots to communicate more frequently than under purely opportunistic strategies while reducing the unnecessary travel associated with fixed rendezvous strategies. Across a set of simulated environments with varying size and geometry, we demonstrate that MACE reduces the total exploration time by up to 23% compared to existing communication-constrained exploration strategies.