TY - JOUR
T1 - MRoCS
T2 - a new multi-robot communication system based on passive action recognition
AU - Das, Barnali
AU - Couceiro, Micael S.
AU - Vargas, Patricia A.
PY - 2016/8/31
Y1 - 2016/8/31
N2 - Multi-robot search-and-rescue missions often face major challenges in adverse environments due to the limitations of traditional implicit and explicit communication. This paper proposes a novel multi-robot communication system (MRoCS), which uses a passive action recognition technique that overcomes the shortcomings of traditional models. The proposed MRoCS relies on individual motion, by mimicking the waggle dance of honey bees and thus forming and recognising different patterns accordingly. The system was successfully designed and implemented in simulation and with real robots. Experimental results show that, the pattern recognition process successfully reported high sensitivity with good precision in all cases for three different patterns thus corroborating our hypothesis.
AB - Multi-robot search-and-rescue missions often face major challenges in adverse environments due to the limitations of traditional implicit and explicit communication. This paper proposes a novel multi-robot communication system (MRoCS), which uses a passive action recognition technique that overcomes the shortcomings of traditional models. The proposed MRoCS relies on individual motion, by mimicking the waggle dance of honey bees and thus forming and recognising different patterns accordingly. The system was successfully designed and implemented in simulation and with real robots. Experimental results show that, the pattern recognition process successfully reported high sensitivity with good precision in all cases for three different patterns thus corroborating our hypothesis.
KW - swarm robotics
KW - multi-robot communication
KW - passive action recognition
KW - bio-inspired computation
KW - honey bee waggle dance
KW - unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/robotics-and-autonomous-systems
UR - https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/mrocs-a-new-multi-robot-communication-system-based-on-passive-act
U2 - 10.1016/j.robot.2016.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.robot.2016.04.002
M3 - Article
SN - 0921-8890
VL - 82
SP - 46
EP - 60
JO - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
JF - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
ER -