@inproceedings{1060eadc05124d028dcc9f714ece00f6,
title = "An asynchronous distributed routing system for muti-robot cooperative transportation",
abstract = "We propose a distributed routing system for multi-robot cooperative transportation by parallel multiple processors with an asynchronous data exchanging. In the proposed method, each robot generates a routing to minimize each objective function comprising of traveling time and the penalty for violating constraints of cooperation with other robots. A near optimal routing is generated by repeating the generation of each routing and data exchanging among the robots. The asynchronous data exchanging is adopted to reduce the computation time. In order the solution not to be trapped in a local optimum, the weighting factors violating the constraints are updated with a time-dependent method during parallel computation. The proposed method is applied to a motion planning for cooperative transportation of an experimental 4 real robots system. The effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated on various types of experimental conditions.",
keywords = "Asynchronous data exchanging, Constrained optimization, Cooperative transportation, Distributed routing, Multi-robot system",
author = "Tatsushi Nishi and Yoshitomi Mori and Masami Konishi and Jun Imai",
year = "2005",
doi = "10.1109/IROS.2005.1545268",
language = "English",
isbn = "0780389123",
series = "2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1730--1735",
booktitle = "2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS",
address = "United States",
}