Adaptive Inter-Robot Trust for Robust Multi-Robot Sensor Coverage

@inproceedings{inaba_adaptive_2016,
  address = {Cham},
  title = {Adaptive {Inter}-{Robot} {Trust} for {Robust} {Multi}-{Robot} {Sensor} {Coverage}},
  volume = {114},
  isbn = {978-3-319-28870-3 978-3-319-28872-7},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-28872-7_10},
  abstract = {This paper proposes a new approach to both characterize inter-robot trust in multi-robot systems and adapt trust online in response to the relative performance of the robots. The approach is applied to a multi-robot coverage control scenario, in which a team of robots must spread out over an environment to provide sensing coverage. A decentralized algorithm is designed to control the positions of the robots, while simultaneously adapting their trust weightings. Robots with higher quality sensors take charge of a larger region in the environment, while robots with lower quality sensors have their regions reduced. Using a Lyapunov-type proof, it is proven that the robots converge to locally optimal positions for sensing that are as good as if the robots’ sensor qualities were known beforehand. The algorithm is demonstrated in Matlab simulations.},
  language = {en},
  urldate = {2020-09-15},
  booktitle = {2013 {International} {Symposium} of {Robotics} {Research} ({ISRR})},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  author = {Pierson, Alyssa and Schwager, Mac},
  editor = {Inaba, Masayuki and Corke, Peter},
  year = {2016},
  keywords = {coverage\_control},
  pages = {167--183}
}