Research on Circular Area Search algorithm of multi-robot service based on SOA cloud platform

Considering autonomous mobile robots with a variety of specific functions as a kind of service, when there are many types and quantities of services and the density of regional services is large, proposing an algorithm of Circular Area Search (CAS) because of the problem of multi-robot service scheduling in various areas. Firstly, Django is used as the web framework to build the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) multi-robot service cloud platform, which is the basic platform for multi-service combination. Then, the service type, the latitude and longitude and the scoring parameters of the service are selected as the service search metrics to design the CAS algorithm that based on the existing service information registered in MySQL and the Gaode Map for screening optimal service, and then providing the service applicant with the best service. Finally, the service applicant applies for the self-driving tour service as an example to perform performance simulation test on the proposed CAS algorithm. The results show that the CAS algorithm of the multi-robot service cloud platform proposed in this paper is practical compared to the global search. And compared with the Greedy Algorithm experiment, the service search time is reduced about 58% compared with the Greedy Algorithm, which verifies the efficiency of CAS algorithm.     

霍夫空间中多足球机器人协作目标定位算法

针对嵌入式仿人足球机器人提出一种霍夫空间中的多机器人协作目标定位算法。机器人利用实验场地中的标志物采用基于三角几何定位方法进行自定位,把机器人多连杆模型进行简化,通过坐标系位姿变换把图像坐标系转换到世界坐标系中,实现机器人目标定位;在多机器人之间建立ZigBee无线传感器网络进行通信,把多个机器人定位的坐标点进行霍夫变换,在霍夫空间中进行最小二乘法线性拟合,获取最优参数,然后融合改进后的粒子滤波实现对目标小球的跟踪;最后在21自由度的仿人足球机器人上进行仿真和实验。数据结果表明,这种多机器人协作的定位算法的精度提高了约48%,在满足实时性的前提下,对目标的跟踪效果也得到了改善。     

多机器人三维仿真与离线编程系统设计

以支持二次开发的三维实体造型软件为开发平台,通用的C++为编程语言,开发了多机器人三维仿真与离线编程系统。离线规划的典型协作运动作业文件在仿真与真实系统中都完成了所规划的协作运动,由此验证了仿真系统具有多机器人三维仿真与离线编程功能。     

基于博弈论的多机器人任务分配算法

为了寻找一种合理有效的多机器人任务分配算法,基于多机器人协作救火任务环境,以博弈论纳什均衡为基础,研究多机器人的任务分配问题。根据任务模型特点和纳什均衡的主要特征提出了一种基于博弈论的任务分配算法。博弈的效用函数同时考虑了距离、火势和燃烧时间等因素,机器人根据此效用函数选择行为策略,促使机器人尽快扑灭惩罚值较大的火灾而获得较大的奖励值。利用任务总收益函数值的大小评价算法的优劣性。收益函数与火势、燃烧时间和机器人扑灭火灾数有关,这切合实际救火模型。实验结果证明了该任务分配算法的有效性。     

一种基于效益的多机器人避碰协调策略

多移动机器人系统在完成同时定位和地图构建SLAM任务时,机器人之间常常存在相互碰撞的问题,而这种碰撞的避免又不同于一般的避障,因为避障问题中的障碍物一般是不动的。为了解决机器人之间的避碰问题,提出了一种基于效益的多机器人避碰协调策略。该策略以提高多机器人系统探索效率为主,确定机器人通过交叉路口的顺序。同时考虑了动态协调避碰的情况,给出了确定机器人通过交叉路口顺序的算法。通过机器人在交叉路口实现避碰协调算法的仿真示例,对该方法的避碰协调过程进行了说明,并对仿真结果进行了分析,同时对仿真中机器人和目标位置的空间关系给出了合理的假设。     

不确定环境下多机器人的动态编队控制

提出了一种不确定环境下多机器人的动态编队控制方法．通过队形参数矩阵确立多机器人之间的相对 位置关系,将全局队形控制问题转化为跟随机器人离轴点对虚机器人（与领航机器人运动方向一致,且对领航机器 人保持期望的相对距离和观测方位角）离轴点的跟踪．基于建立的跟随机器人和领航机器人之间的误差跟踪系统模 型设计相应控制律实现队形保持,并提出了防止机器人与障碍物及其它机器人碰撞的避障策略．仿真结果表明了所 提方法的可行性和有效性．     

基于遗传算法的BP神经网络优化策略研究

人工神经网络（ANN）可用作机器人控制器,完成多机器人协作搬运作业。针对这种方法收敛速度较慢,误差较大的不足,本文提出基于遗传算法优化的方法。该方法利用遗传算法优化人工神经网络,通过改变ANN结构和遗传算法操作参数,找到最优网络,提高网络收敛速度。仿真结果证明,该方法的可行性与有效性。     

基于并列选择遗传算法的多机器人协作探测

多机器人系统在执行探测任务时,存在多个机器人同时选择相同探测区域而造成碰撞几率增加和探测效率降低的问题.在原有并列选择遗传算法的基础上,提出了一种改进的遗传算法.仿真和实验结果表明,将该算法应用于多机器人协作区域探测,可以减小机器人之间的碰撞几率,提高多机器人系统的探测效率.     

From insect to Internet: Situated control for networked robot teams

Ant-like systems take advantage of agents' situatedness to reduce or eliminate the need for centralized control or global knowledge. This reduces the need for complexity of individuals and leads to robust, scalable systems. Such insect-inspired situated approaches have proven effective both for task performance and task allocation. The desire for general, principled techniques for situated interaction has led us to study the exploitation of abstract situatedness – situatedness in non-physical environments. The port-arbitrated behavior-based control approach provides a well-structured abstract behavior space in which agents can participate in situated interaction. We focus on the problem of role assumption, distributed task allocation in which each agent selects its own task-performing role. This paper details our general, principled Broadcast of Local Eligibility (BLE) technique for role-assumption in such behavior-space-situated systems, and provides experimental results from the CMOMMT target-tracking task. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Lifelong Adaptation in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams: Response to Continual Variation in Individual Robot Performance

Generating teams of robots that are able to perform their tasks over long periods of time requires the robots to be responsive to continual changes in robot team member capabilities and to changes in the state of the environment and mission. In this article, we describe the L-ALLIANCE architecture, which enables teams of heterogeneous robots to dynamically adapt their actions over time. This architecture, which is an extension of our earlier work on ALLIANCE, is a distributed, behavior-based architecture aimed for use in applications consisting of a collection of independent tasks. The key issue addressed in L-ALLIANCE is the determination of which tasks robots should select to perform during their mission, even when multiple robots with heterogeneous, continually changing capabilities are present on the team. In this approach, robots monitor the performance of their teammates performing common tasks, and evaluate their performance based upon the time of task completion. Robots then use this information throughout the lifetime of their mission to automatically update their control parameters. After describing the L-ALLIANCE architecture, we discuss the results of implementing this approach on a physical team of heterogeneous robots performing proof-of-concept box pushing experiments. The results illustrate the ability of L-ALLIANCE to enable lifelong adaptation of heterogeneous robot teams to continuing changes in the robot team member capabilities and in the environment.