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Novel Hardware-Based Modeling Approach For Multi-Robot Tasks
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Researchers at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in Russia have released new findings in the emerging field of multi-robot cooperative system design. The researchers propose implementing a hardware-based modeling system for multi-robot collaborative tasks concentrating on the development and deployment phase of algorithm/system creation. Their strategy enables accelerating implementation iterations, ultimately leading to improved communication capabilities of research objects. The researchers focus not only on architecture and implementation of a research robot, but also on a communication system with parallel radio and infrared bidirectional data sharing, as well as on approaches to implementing a simulation toolchain.
Thanks to advances in the development of general problems with single-robot control and basic multi-robot behavior, many researchers opted to study multi-robot coordination and deep cooperation behavior. As robots will be able to perform all necessary algorithmic steps, using tightly coupled modeling hardware and a simulation toolchain that transfers the full implementation of algorithms onto the hardware can yield certain advantages.
"The new methods are attractive, as they integrate different new ideas concerning the algorithm design process, event-driven robot software design, and an autonomous mobile research robot equipped with an advanced sensor subsystem," says Radu-Emil Precup, a professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania.
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