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On Provably Safe and Live Multirobot Coordination with Online Goal Posting
Örebro University, School of Science and Technology. Research Center “E. Piaggio,” University of Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. (AASS)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1627-0921
Research Center “E. Piaggio,” University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy .
Örebro University, School of Science and Technology. (AASS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9652-7864
2021 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on robotics, ISSN 1552-3098, E-ISSN 1941-0468, Vol. 37, no 6, p. 1973-1991Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A standing challenge in multirobot systems is to realize safe and efficient motion planning and coordination methods that are capable of accounting for uncertainties and contingencies. The challenge is rendered harder by the fact that robots may be heterogeneous and that their plans may be posted asynchronously. Most existing approaches require constraints on the infrastructureor unrealistic assumptions on robot models. In this article, we propose a centralized, loosely-coupled supervisory controller that overcomes these limitations. The approach responds to newly posed constraints and uncertainties during trajectory execution, ensuring at all times that planned robot trajectories remain kinodynamically feasible, that the fleet is in a safe state, and that there are no deadlocks or livelocks. This is achieved without the need for hand-coded rules, fixed robot priorities, or environment modification. We formally state all relevant properties of robot behavior in the most general terms possible, without assuming particular robot models or environments, and provide both formal and empirical proof that the proposed fleet control algorithms guarantee safety and liveness.

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2021. Vol. 37, no 6, p. 1973-1991
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Formal methods in robotics and automation, intelligent and flexible manufacturing, multirobot systems, planning, scheduling and coordination
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90584DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2021.3075371ISI: 000725804900012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-90584DiVA, id: diva2:1538480
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European Commission, 732737Knowledge FoundationVinnovaAvailable from: 2021-03-19 Created: 2021-03-19 Last updated: 2021-12-16Bibliographically approved

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