Decentralized trajectory optimization for multi-agent exploration
| Autor: | Gkouletsos, Dimitris, Iannelli, Andrea, de Badyn, Mathias Hudoba, Lygeros, John |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Autonomous exploration is an application of growing importance in robotics. A promising strategy is ergodic trajectory planning, whereby an agent spends in each area a fraction of time which is proportional to its probability information density function. In this paper, a decentralized ergodic multi-agent trajectory planning algorithm featuring limited communication constraints is proposed. The agents' trajectories are designed by optimizing a weighted cost encompassing ergodicity, control energy and close-distance operation objectives. To solve the underlying optimal control problem, a second-order descent iterative method coupled with a projection operator in the form of an optimal feedback controller is used. Exhaustive numerical analyses show that the multi-agent solution allows a much more efficient exploration in terms of completion task time and control energy distribution by leveraging collaboration among agents. Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted to the Robotics and Automation Letters and the 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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