STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME

Ting Wang, Christophe Sabourin, Kurosh Madani

2011

Abstract

Many applications can benefit from multi-robot systems like warehouse management, industrial assembling, military applications, daily tasks. In this paper, we describe a new approach for the control of a formation of robots. In the proposed solution, we consider the formation as a single robot and our work focus on how to control the formation. We suppose there are virtual rigid links between all robots and all robots perform the same task in synchronous manner.

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Wang T., Sabourin C. and Madani K. (2011). STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-75-1, pages 300-303. DOI: 10.5220/0003535503000303


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Wang T., Sabourin C. and Madani K. (2011). STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-75-1, pages 300-303. DOI: 10.5220/0003535503000303


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco11,
author={Ting Wang and Christophe Sabourin and Kurosh Madani},
title={STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2011},
pages={300-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003535503000303},
isbn={978-989-8425-75-1},
}


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco11,
author={Ting Wang and Christophe Sabourin and Kurosh Madani},
title={STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2011},
pages={300-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003535503000303},
isbn={978-989-8425-75-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME
SN - 978-989-8425-75-1
AU - Wang T.
AU - Sabourin C.
AU - Madani K.
PY - 2011
SP - 300
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0003535503000303


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - STRATEGY BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE CONTROL OF A RIGID FORMATION IN A MULTI-ROBOTS FRAME
SN - 978-989-8425-75-1
AU - Wang T.
AU - Sabourin C.
AU - Madani K.
PY - 2011
SP - 300
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0003535503000303