Scalable, Pairwise Collaborations in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

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Authors

Alex Nguyen, Luis Guerrero-Bonilla, Faryar Jabbari, Magnus Egerstedt

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel architecture, particularly designed with heterogeneous multi-robot teams in mind, where pairwise collaborative arrangements can result in new capabilities for the participants. Our architecture employs a finite state machine (FSM) as the decision-making mechanism of the individual robots and a centralized queue, termed the “help queue”, to form suitable pairings between help-needing robots and help-providing robots based on a user-specified selection strategy. Additionally, the FSM’s complexity is independent of the team size, which ensures our approach is scalable.

Link

A. A. Nguyen, L. Guerrero-Bonilla, F. Jabbari and M. Egerstedt, “Scalable, Pairwise Collaborations in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams,” in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 8, pp. 604-609, 2024

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