Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends and Applications

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: History of engineering and technology; Technology: general issues; android robot; arbitration; automatic design; AutoMoDe; autonomous media production; autonomous robots; behaviour; collaborative localization; collaborative navigation; collaborative robots; collision-free constraint; constrained-communication environments; cooperative systems; coordination; deep reinforcement learning; demand; dialogue system; digital twin; distributed tracking; drone cinematography; drones; dual-head electromagnetic propulsion device; dynamic environments; elderly people; evolutionary robotics; exploration missions; firefighting; heterogeneous multi-robotic cell; hormone; human robot interaction; Industry 4.0; information sharing; Kalman filter; lean automation; low computational power; M* algorithm; manipulation planning; mapping; mixed reality simulation; multi-agent systems; multi-robot; multi-robot cell; multi-robot coordinated systems; multi-robot systems; multimedia tools; multiple conversation robots; n/a; native language application; nonlinear model; optimality and completeness; passive social conversation; path planning; perception; PID controller; planning; positional uncertainty; re-localization module; robot-human interactions; robotics; robust autonomous landing; shortest path finding; socket communication; swarm; swarm robotics; swarms; task and motion planning; teamwork; time-based synchronization; two robots; unmanned aerial vehicle; unmanned aerial vehicles; unmanned ground vehicle; unscented transformation; virtual reality; visualized ground control station; X-Plane flight simulator
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036528465; 9783036528472; books978-3-0365-2847-2
• Access: Open Access

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue entitled "Multi-Robot Systems: Challenges, Trends, and Applications" that was published in Applied Sciences. This Special Issue collected seventeen high-quality papers that discuss the main challenges of multi-robot systems, present the trends to address these issues, and report various relevant applications. Some of the topics addressed by these papers are robot swarms, mission planning, robot teaming, machine learning, immersive technologies, search and rescue, and social robotics.