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A rapid hunting algorithm for multi mobile robots system

  • Wei Wang*
  • , Jinghao Qi
  • , Houxiang Zhang
  • , Guanghua Zong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • University of Hamburg

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Abstract

To decrease the times of dynamic path planning and increase the hunting speed, a concept of "Virtual Range" has been presented for a multi mobile robots system to hunt a moving target in the outdoor environment. Firstly, the path planning of a single robot based on the potential grid method is discussed in a grid map of the outdoor environment, which is established by using the SQL server database. Furthermore, the "Dead Point" problem of the potential grid method is analyzed and resolved. The regular polygon surrounding strategy is the final object to be cooperatively fulfilled by the multi mobile robots. To realize an obvious hunting time reduction, the "Virtual Range" is used as a criterion to trigger the change of the robots' states. An actual multi mobile robots system based on wireless LAN has been used to validate the algorithm. The test results show that a reasonable "Virtual Range" can shorten the surrounding time, and there is a shortest hunting time "Virtual Range" for a certain multi mobile robot system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICIEA 2007
Subtitle of host publication2007 Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications
Pages1203-1207
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2007 - Harbin, China
Duration: 23 May 200725 May 2007

Publication series

NameICIEA 2007: 2007 Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications

Conference

Conference2007 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period23/05/0725/05/07

Keywords

  • Multi mobile robots
  • Path planning
  • Potential grid method

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