Coordinated Robot Navigation via Hierarchical Clustering

We introduce the use of hierarchical clustering for relaxed deterministic coordination and control of multiple robots. Traditionally, an unsupervised learning method, hierarchical clustering offers a formalism for identifying and representing spatially cohesive and segregated robot groups at differe...

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Vydané v:IEEE transactions on robotics Ročník 32; číslo 2; s. 352 - 371
Hlavní autori: Arslan, Omur, Guralnik, Dan P., Koditschek, Daniel E.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York IEEE 01.04.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:1552-3098, 1941-0468
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Shrnutí:We introduce the use of hierarchical clustering for relaxed deterministic coordination and control of multiple robots. Traditionally, an unsupervised learning method, hierarchical clustering offers a formalism for identifying and representing spatially cohesive and segregated robot groups at different resolutions by relating the continuous space of configurations to the combinatorial space of trees. We formalize and exploit this relation, developing computationally effective reactive algorithms for navigating through the combinatorial space in concert with geometric realizations for a particular choice of the hierarchical clustering method. These constructions yield computationally effective vector field planners for both hierarchically invariant as well as transitional navigation in the configuration space. We apply these methods to the centralized coordination and control of n perfectly sensed and actuated Euclidean spheres in a d-dimensional ambient space (for arbitrary n and d). Given a desired configuration supporting a desired hierarchy, we construct a hybrid controller that is quadratic in n and algebraic in d and prove that its execution brings all but a measure zero set of initial configurations to the desired goal, with the guarantee of no collisions along the way.
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ISSN:1552-3098
1941-0468
DOI:10.1109/TRO.2016.2524018