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Matthias, Rene [Verfasser]. "An Integrated Communications-Architecture for Multi-Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots / Rene Matthias." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1045988006/34.
Full textAbu-Aisheh, Razanne. "Context-Aware Information Gathering and Processing Towards Supporting Autonomous Systems in Industry 4.0 Scenarios." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUS022.
Full textIndustry 4.0 environments are characterized by the coexistence of a diverse set of devices, including sensors, mixed-reality displays, robots, drones, and smart objects. These systems must be capable of autonomously taking critical in-time decisions necessary to perform complex tasks without human input. One essential application for Industry 4.0 is multi-robot exploration and mapping of unknown environments, especially in critical missions such as hazard detection and search and rescue. These missions share the need to reach full coverage of the explorable space in the shortest time possible. To minimize completion time, robots in the fleet must be able to exchange information about the environment reliably with one another. However, existing exploration and mapping algorithms suffer from inaccuracies and inefficiencies due to their lack of contextual awareness of their surroundings, especially in terms of communications, lacking flexibility and adaptability to the environment, and hence, adding unnecessary delay to the mission at hand. In this thesis, we investigate the impact of communication awareness on the performance of multi-robot exploration and mapping expeditions, in terms of time to completion. We evaluate existing research in the field and demonstrate the impact of not considering communication impairments when designing such algorithms. From there, we propose Atlas, an exploration and mapping algorithm that natively takes packet loss into account, with a 100% completion ratio even with Packet Delivery Ratios (PDRs) as low as 0.1. However, Atlas on its own cannot handle scenarios where connectivity is completely lost. It also adds a significant delay to the completion of the mission, as lost packets keep getting re-transmitted periodically until they are received. One solution is relay placement. Most research on relay placement for multi-robot expeditions tend to fall into two categories. First, communication-aware relay placement based on initial Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is used. However, this requires running a full mission prior to the exploration to find the optimal position for the relays to be placed. Second, maintaining a distance (specified prior to the mission) between relays and exploration robots. These methods add to the time it takes to complete the mission. The research question becomes how can we place relays to maintain communication as reliable as possible, and also dynamically throughout the exploration mission without prior knowledge of the environment, in a way that reduces delay to the exploration and mapping time to completion. We solve this by proposing ``Connectivity Aware Relay Algorithm'' (CARA), a dynamic context-aware relay placement algorithm that does not require any prior knowledge of the environment. We developed an open-source simulator for multi-robot expeditions which we used to test both algorithms against state-of-the-art algorithms. Using both Atlas and CARA results in a dynamic context-aware multi-robot expedition that autonomously builds a map of a fully unknown environment, while dynamically placing relays when needed to maintain connectivity that outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms, in terms of time to completion, by a factor of 10
Kuo, Victor. "Enabling Parallel Wireless Communication in Mobile Robot Teams." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9410.
Full textGantsou, Engoua Dhavy. "Communication interprocessus dans les systèmes coopératifs multi-robots : Mise en œuvre dans l'environnement lcoop." Valenciennes, 1990. https://ged.uphf.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/bafc973d-42b2-4fd8-a1c1-eebbedde48f8.
Full textrahman, md mahbubur. "Efficient Mission Planning for Robot Networks in Communication Constrained Environments." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3484.
Full textTALAMINI, JACOPO. "Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning and Robotic Agents Evolution." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2982151.
Full textMahdoui, Chedly Nesrine. "Communicating multi-UAV system for cooperative SLAM-based exploration." Thesis, Compiègne, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018COMP2447/document.
Full textIn the aerial robotic community, a growing interest for Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) appeared in the last years. This is thanks to i) the technological advances, such as better onboard processing capabilities and higher communication performances, and ii) the promising results of MRS deployment, such as increased area coverage in minimum time. The development of highly efficient and affordable fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) of small size has paved the way to new large-scale applications, that demand such System of Systems (SoS) features in areas like security, disaster surveillance, inundation monitoring, search and rescue, infrastructure inspection, and so on. Such applications require the robots to identify their environment and localize themselves. These fundamental tasks can be ensured by the exploration mission. In this context, this thesis addresses the cooperative exploration of an unknown environment sensed by a team of UAVs with embedded vision. We propose a multi-robot framework where the key problem is to cooperatively choose specific regions of the environment to be simultaneously explored and mapped by each robot in an optimized manner in order to reduce exploration time and, consequently, energy consumption. Each UAV is able to performSimultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) with a visual sensor as the main input sensor. To explore the unknown regions, the targets – selected from the computed frontier points lying between free and unknown areas – are assigned to robots by considering a trade-off between fast exploration and getting detailed grid maps. For the sake of decision making, UAVs usually exchange a copy of their local map; however, the novelty in this work is to exchange map frontier points instead, which allow to save communication bandwidth. One of the most challenging points in MRS is the inter-robot communication. We study this part in both topological and typological aspects. We also propose some strategies to cope with communication drop-out or failure. Validations based on extensive simulations and testbeds are presented
Ajwad, Syed Ali. "Distributed control of multi-agent systems under communication constraints : application to robotics." Thesis, Poitiers, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020POIT2264.
Full textMulti-agent systems (MAS) have gained much popularity due to their vast range of applications. MAS is deployed to achieve more complex goals which could not be realized by a single agent alone. Communication and information exchange among the agents in a MAS is crucial to control its cooperative behavior. Agents share their information with their neighbors to reach a common objective, thus do not require any central monitoring unit. However, the communication among the agents is subject to various practical constraints. These constraints include irregular and asynchronous sampling periods and the availability of partial states only. Such constraints pose significant theoretical and practical challenges. In this thesis, we investigate two fundamental problems related to distributed cooperative control, namely consensus and formation control, of double-integrator MAS under these constraints. It is considered that each agent in the network can measure and transmit its position state only at nonuniform and asynchronous sampling instants. Moreover, the velocity and acceleration are not available. First, we study the problem of distributed control of leader-following consensus. A continuous-discrete time observer based leader-following algorithm is proposed. The observer estimates the position and velocity of the agent and its neighbor in continuous time from the available sampled position data. Then these estimated states are used for the computation of the control input. Both fixed and switching topology scenarios are discussed. Secondly, a consensus based distributed formation tracking protocol is designed to achieve both fixed and time-varying formation patterns. Collision avoidance problem is also studied in this thesis. An Artificial Potential Function (APF) based collision avoidance mechanism is incorporated with the formation tracking algorithm to prevent collisions between the agents while converging to a desired position. Finally, the proposed algorithms are applied on a multi-robot network, consisting of differential drive robots using Robot Operating System (ROS). A new scheme is proposed to deal with nonholonomic constraints of the robot. Efficiency of the designed algorithms and their effectiveness in real world applications are shown through both simulation and hardware results
Parodi, Olivier. "Simulation hybride pour la coordination de véhicules hétérogènes au sein d'une flottille." Phd thesis, Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00373347.
Full textLa complexité des architectures de contrôle d'une part et les difficultés soulevées par le choix de stratégies de contrôle multi-véhicules d'autre part, rendent nécessaires la création de nouveaux outils de simulation permettant de tester et valider lois de commande et architectures de contrôle tout en détectant les inconsistances préliminaires des scenarios envisagés. L'objet de cette thèse est donc l'étude d'un outil de simulation collaboratif appelé THETIS.
Il s'agit d'un simulateur conçu avant tout pour aborder les problèmes liés au contexte de la flottille. Il est multi-véhicules hétérogènes puisqu'il permet de simuler par exemple, un scenario dans lequel un AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) et un ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) interviennent simultanément. Les véhicules peuvent communiquer entre eux au sein de la simulation et les contraintes liées au milieu de propagation (interférences, bande passante, atténuation...) d'une part et à l'utilisation de matériel spécifique (temps de réveil, conflit émission/réception...) d'autre part sont prises en compte. L'architecture du simulateur est ouverte pour faciliter l'intégration et la mise à disposition pour tous, du travail de modélisation des différentes équipes possédant des compétences propres, tout en favorisant la réutilisabilité et la modularité de ces modèles. La capacité du système proposé à réaliser des simulations Hardware-In-The-Loop permet de tester et valider le comportement temporel du contrôleur. Par ailleurs ce simulateur est distribué afin de pouvoir étendre dynamiquement la puissance de calcul nécessitée par l'augmentation du nombre de véhicules et/ou la complexification des modèles, tout en respectant les contraintes temps-réel et le découplage temporel entre la commande et l'évolution des modèles dynamiques.
THETIS est donc un des seuls outils à l'heure actuelle répondant aux contraintes liées au contexte de la simulation de robots marins en flottille. Nous présentons des tests préliminaires mettant en œuvre un AUV de classe Taipan (développée au LIRMM en France) d'une part et un ASV Charlie (développé par l'ISSIA en Italie) d'autre part qui possèdent des architectures de contrôle différentes, et démontrons ainsi la faisabilité et la validité de notre approche.
Basaran, Dilek. "Design, Production And Development Of Mini/micro Robots To Form A Cooperative Colony." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1058874/index.pdf.
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Camus, Mickaël. "Système auto-adaptatif générique pour le contrôle de robots ou d'entités logicielles." Paris 6, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA066308.
Full textMajed, Aliah. "Sensing-based self-reconfigurable strategies for autonomous modular robotic systems." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Brest, École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022ENTA0013.
Full textModular robotic systems (MRSs) have become a highly active research today. It has the ability to change the perspective of robotic systems from machines designed to do certain tasks to multipurpose tools capable of accomplishing almost any task. They are used in a wide range of applications, including reconnaissance, rescue missions, space exploration, military task, etc. Constantly, MRS is built of “modules” from a few to several hundreds or even thousands. Each module involves actuators, sensors, computational, and communicational capabilities. Usually, these systems are homogeneous where all the modules are identical; however, there could be heterogeneous systems that contain different modules to maximize versatility. One of the advantages of these systems is their ability to operate in harsh environments in which contemporary human-in-the-loop working schemes are risky, inefficient and sometimes infeasible. In this thesis, we are interested in self-reconfigurable modular robotics. In such systems, it uses a set of detectors in order to continuously sense its surroundings, locate its own position, and then transform to a specific shape to perform the required tasks. Consequently, MRS faces three major challenges. First, it offers a great amount of collected data that overloads the memory storage of the robot. Second it generates redundant data which complicates the decision making about the next morphology in the controller. Third, the self reconfiguration process necessitates massive communication between the modules to reach the target morphology and takes a significant processing time to self-reconfigure the robotic. Therefore, researchers’ strategies are often targeted to minimize the amount of data collected by the modules without considerable loss in fidelity. The goal of this reduction is first to save the storage space in the MRS, and then to facilitate analyzing data and making decision about what morphology to use next in order to adapt to new circumstances and perform new tasks. In this thesis, we propose an efficient mechanism for data processing and self-reconfigurable decision-making dedicated to modular robotic systems. More specifically, we focus on data storage reduction, self-reconfiguration decision-making, and efficient communication management between modules in MRSs with the main goal of ensuring fast self-reconfiguration process
Khalili, Mohsen. "Distributed Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1503622016617833.
Full textMeftouh, Fouad. "Système de commande temps-réel multi-agents." Toulouse, ENSAE, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993ESAE0029.
Full textSantos, Frederico Miguel do Céu Marques dos. "Architecture for real-time coordination of multiple autonomous mobile units." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/13969.
Full textInterest on using teams of mobile robots has been growing, due to their potential to cooperate for diverse purposes, such as rescue, de-mining, surveillance or even games such as robotic soccer. These applications require a real-time middleware and wireless communication protocol that can support an efficient and timely fusion of the perception data from different robots as well as the development of coordinated behaviours. Coordinating several autonomous robots towards achieving a common goal is currently a topic of high interest, which can be found in many application domains. Despite these different application domains, the technical problem of building an infrastructure to support the integration of the distributed perception and subsequent coordinated action is similar. This problem becomes tougher with stronger system dynamics, e.g., when the robots move faster or interact with fast objects, leading to tighter real-time constraints. This thesis work addressed computing architectures and wireless communication protocols to support efficient information sharing and coordination strategies taking into account the real-time nature of robot activities. The thesis makes two main claims. Firstly, we claim that despite the use of a wireless communication protocol that includes arbitration mechanisms, the self-organization of the team communications in a dynamic round that also accounts for variable team membership, effectively reduces collisions within the team, independently of its current composition, significantly improving the quality of the communications. We will validate this claim in terms of packet losses and communication latency. We show how such self-organization of the communications can be achieved in an efficient way with the Reconfigurable and Adaptive TDMA protocol. Secondly, we claim that the development of distributed perception, cooperation and coordinated action for teams of mobile robots can be simplified by using a shared memory middleware that replicates in each cooperating robot all necessary remote data, the Real-Time Database (RTDB) middleware. These remote data copies, which are updated in the background by the selforganizing communications protocol, are extended with age information automatically computed by the middleware and are locally accessible through fast primitives. We validate our claim showing a parsimonious use of the communication medium, improved timing information with respect to the shared data and the simplicity of use and effectiveness of the proposed middleware shown in several use cases, reinforced with a reasonable impact in the Middle Size League of RoboCup.
O interesse na utilização de equipas multi-robô tem vindo a crescer, devido ao seu potencial para cooperarem na resolução de vários problemas, tais como salvamento, desminagem, vigilância e até futebol robótico. Estas aplicações requerem uma infraestrutura de comunicação sem fios, em tempo real, suportando a fusão eficiente e atempada dos dados sensoriais de diferentes robôs bem como o desenvolvimento de comportamentos coordenados. A coordenação de vários robôs autónomos com vista a um dado objectivo é actualmente um tópico que suscita grande interesse, e que pode ser encontrado em muitos domínios de aplicação. Apesar das diferenças entre domínios de aplicação, o problema técnico de construir uma infraestrutura para suportar a integração da percepção distribuída e das acções coordenadas é similar. O problema torna-se mais difícil à medida que o dinamismo dos robôs se acentua, por exemplo, no caso de se moverem mais rápido, ou de interagirem com objectos que se movimentam rapidamente, dando origem a restrições de tempo-real mais apertadas. Este trabalho centrou-se no desenvolvimento de arquitecturas computacionais e protocolos de comunicação sem fios para suporte à partilha de informação e à realização de acções coordenadas, levando em consideração as restrições de tempo-real. A tese apresenta duas afirmações principais. Em primeiro lugar, apesar do uso de um protocolo de comunicação sem fios que inclui mecanismos de arbitragem, a auto-organização das comunicações reduz as colisões na equipa, independentemente da sua composição em cada momento. Esta afirmação é validada em termos de perda de pacotes e latência da comunicação. Mostra-se também como a auto-organização das comunicações pode ser atingida através da utilização de um protocolo TDMA reconfigurável e adaptável sem sincronização de relógio. A segunda afirmação propõe a utilização de um sistema de memória partilhada, com replicação nos diferentes robôs, para suportar o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de percepção distribuída, fusão sensorial, cooperação e coordenação numa equipa de robôs. O sistema concreto que foi desenvolvido é designado como Base de Dados de Tempo Real (RTDB). Os dados remotos, que são actualizados de forma transparente pelo sistema de comunicações auto-organizado, são estendidos com a respectiva idade e são disponibilizados localmente a cada robô através de primitivas de acesso eficientes. A RTDB facilita a utilização parcimoniosa da rede e bem como a manutenção de informação temporal rigorosa. A simplicidade da integração da RTDB para diferentes aplicações permitiu a sua efectiva utilização em diferentes projectos, nomeadamente no âmbito do RoboCup.