Adaptive heterogeneous multi-robot collaboration from formal task specificationsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, ISSN 0921-8890, E-ISSN 1872-793X, Vol. 145, article id 103866Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Efficiently coordinating different types of robots is an important enabler for many commercial and industrial automation tasks. Here, we present a distributed framework that enables a team of heterogeneous robots to dynamically generate actions from a common, user-defined goal specification. In particular, we discuss the integration of various robotic capabilities into a common task allocation and planning formalism, as well as the specification of expressive, temporally-extended goals by non -expert users. Models for task allocation and execution both consider non-deterministic outcomes of actions and thus, are suitable for a wide range of real-world tasks including formally specified reactions to online observations. One main focus of our paper is to evaluate the framework and its integration of software modules through a number of experiments. These experiments comprise industry-inspired scenarios as motivated by future real-world applications. Finally, we discuss the results and learnings for motivating practically relevant, future research questions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2021. Vol. 145, article id 103866
Keywords [en]
Robotics, Multi-robot, Temporal logic, HRI, Heterogeneous robots, Task decomposition, Task allocation, Abstraction
National Category
Robotics and automation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-304700DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2021.103866ISI: 000709142300003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113387921OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-304700DiVA, id: diva2:1610329
Note
QC 20211110
2021-11-102021-11-102025-02-09Bibliographically approved