The final publication is available at link.springer.com ; Social robots should be able to search and track people in order to help them. In this paper we present two different techniques for coordinated multi-robot teams for searching and tracking people. A probability map (belief) of a target person location is maintained, and to initialize and update it, two methods were implemented and tested: one based on a reinforcement learning algorithm and the other based on a particle filter. The person is tracked if visible, otherwise an exploration is done by making a balance, for each candidate location, between the belief, the distance, and whether close locations are explored by other robots of the team. The validation of the approach was accomplished throughout an extensive set of simulations using up to five agents and a large amount of dynamic obstacles; furthermore, over three hours of real-life experiments with two robots searching and tracking were recorded and analysed. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (author's final draft)
Searching and tracking people with cooperative mobile robots
2018-01-01
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC: | 629 |
Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robots
NTIS | 2005
|Cooperative social robots: Accompanying, guiding and interacting with people
BASE | 2013
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