Abstract
H. Ma, W. Hoenig, L. Cohen, T. Uras, H. Xu, S. Kumar, N. Ayanian and S. Koenig. Overview: A Hierarchical Framework for Plan Generation and Execution in Multirobot Systems. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 32, (6), 6-12, 2017.Abstract: The authors present an overview of a hierarchical framework for coordinating task- and motion-level operations in multirobot systems. Their framework is based on the idea of using simple temporal networks to simultaneously reason about precedence/causal constraints required for task-level coordination and simple temporal constraints required to take some kinematic constraints of robots into account. In the plan-generation phase, the framework provides a computationally scalable method for generating plans that achieve high-level tasks for groups of robots and take some of their kinematic constraints into account. In the plan-execution phase, the framework provides a method for absorbing an imperfect plan execution to avoid time-consuming re-planning in many cases. The authors use the multirobot path-planning problem as a case study to present the key ideas behind their framework for the long-term autonomy of multirobot systems.
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