Auction like Task Allocation and Motion Coordination Strategies for Multi-Robot Transport Tasks

José Guerrero, Gabriel Oliver

2005

Abstract

In this paper we present a task allocation method based on auction mechanisms that allows to find how many robots are needed to execute a task. This number is unknown and depends on several factors. There are also different types of tasks that must be executed using different skills of the robots. It is very difficult to find a correct allocation under this conditions and at present it is an open problem. We also propose two motion coordination methods to reduce the interference effect between robots. To test our system a modification of the well know foraging task has been used. This task introduces special characteristics, not directly studied in previous work, that our method try to solve.

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in Harvard Style

Guerrero J. and Oliver G. (2005). Auction like Task Allocation and Motion Coordination Strategies for Multi-Robot Transport Tasks . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems - Volume 1: MARS, (ICINCO 2005) ISBN 972-8865-34-1, pages 80-87. DOI: 10.5220/0001195000800087


in Bibtex Style

@conference{mars05,
author={José Guerrero and Gabriel Oliver},
title={Auction like Task Allocation and Motion Coordination Strategies for Multi-Robot Transport Tasks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems - Volume 1: MARS, (ICINCO 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={80-87},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001195000800087},
isbn={972-8865-34-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems - Volume 1: MARS, (ICINCO 2005)
TI - Auction like Task Allocation and Motion Coordination Strategies for Multi-Robot Transport Tasks
SN - 972-8865-34-1
AU - Guerrero J.
AU - Oliver G.
PY - 2005
SP - 80
EP - 87
DO - 10.5220/0001195000800087