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Authors: Gonçalo S. Martins ; David Portugal and Rui P. Rocha

Affiliation: University of Coimbra, Portugal

Keyword(s): Compression Methods, Multi-Robot Systems, Efficient Information Sharing.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Engineering Applications ; Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ; Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization ; Mobile Robots and Autonomous Systems ; Network Robotics ; Robotics and Automation ; Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control

Abstract: The efficient sharing of information is a commonly overlooked problem in methods proposed for cooperative multi-robot tasks. However, in multi-robot scenarios, especially when the communication network’s quality of service is less than desirable, either in bandwidth or reliability, efficient information exchange is a key aspect for the successful deployment of coordinated robotic teams with proper exchange of information. Compression is a popular, well-studied solution for transmitting data through constrained communications channels, and many general-purpose solutions are available as free and open-source software (FOSS) projects. There are various benchmarking tools capable of comparing the performance of these techniques, but none that differentiate between them in the compression of the typical data exchanged among robots in a cooperative task. Thus, choosing a compression technique to be used in this context is still a challenge. In this paper, the issue of efficiently communica ting data among robots is addressed by comparing the performance of various compression techniques in a case study of multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) scenarios using occupancy grids, a cooperative task usually requiring the exchange of large amounts of data. (More)

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Martins, G.; Portugal, D. and Rocha, R. (2014). A Comparison of General-Purpose FOSS Compression Techniques for Efficient Communication in Cooperative Multi-Robot Tasks. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-040-6; ISSN 2184-2809, SciTePress, pages 136-147. DOI: 10.5220/0005058601360147

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title={A Comparison of General-Purpose FOSS Compression Techniques for Efficient Communication in Cooperative Multi-Robot Tasks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO},
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JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO
TI - A Comparison of General-Purpose FOSS Compression Techniques for Efficient Communication in Cooperative Multi-Robot Tasks
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
IS - 2184-2809
AU - Martins, G.
AU - Portugal, D.
AU - Rocha, R.
PY - 2014
SP - 136
EP - 147
DO - 10.5220/0005058601360147
PB - SciTePress