A Distributed Multi-Robot System for Exploration

An intelligent system that enables a group of robots to communicate and collaborate like humans

This multi-robot system is completely distributed and highly scalable. The system contains multiple mobile robots, which can perform computation, sensing, and monitoring tasks autonomously and can communicate with each other wirelessly. Users can define different missions (e.g. formation, exploration, and monitoring) for the robots in the system, and they can coordinate with each other to accomplish the designated missions in the fastest way.

The prototype of multi-robots

The multi-robots with formation control function

Special Features and Advantages

Completely distributed system - The robots can make decision and communicate by themselves independently without a central control
Real-timeness - The robots can complete tasks (e.g. formation control) in a real-time manner.
Highly scalability. The number of robots in the system can be thousands or more

Applications

Autonomous environmental monitoring in a collaborative manner
Autonomous and real-time formation control

Principal Investigator

Prof. Jiannong Cao

Department of Computing

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