Review
Version 1
Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed
Teamwork for Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic Environments
Version 1
: Received: 29 November 2019 / Approved: 30 November 2019 / Online: 30 November 2019 (09:47:30 CET)
A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
Geihs, K. Engineering Challenges Ahead for Robot Teamwork in Dynamic Environments. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 1368. Geihs, K. Engineering Challenges Ahead for Robot Teamwork in Dynamic Environments. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 1368.
Abstract
The increasing number of robots around us will soon create a demand for connecting these robots in order to achieve goal-driven teamwork in heterogeneous multi-robot systems. In this paper, we focus on robot teamwork specifically in dynamic environments. While the conceptual modeling of multi-agent teamwork has been studied extensively during the last two decades, related engineering concerns have not received the same degree of attention. Therefore, this paper makes two contributions. The analysis part discusses general design challenges that apply to robot teamwork in dynamic application domains. The constructive part presents a review of existing engineering approaches for challenges that arise with dynamically changing runtime conditions. An exhaustive survey of robot teamwork aspects would be beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, we aim at creating awareness for the manifold dimensions of the design space and highlight state-of-the-art technical solutions for dynamically adaptive teamwork, thus pointing at open research questions that need to be tackled in future work.
Keywords
autonomous robots; multi-robot systems; teamwork; coordination
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Robotics
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Comments (0)
We encourage comments and feedback from a broad range of readers. See criteria for comments and our Diversity statement.
Leave a public commentSend a private comment to the author(s)
* All users must log in before leaving a comment
