Multi Robot Systems

Multi Robot Systems Recent Advances in Multi Robot Systems Edited by Aleksandar Lazinica I-Tech Published by I-Tech Education and Publishing I-Tech Education and Publishing Vienna Austria Abstracting and non-profit use of the material is permitted with credit to the source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. Publisher assumes no responsibility liability for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained inside. After this work has been published by the I-Tech Education and Publishing, authors have the right to repub-lish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are an author or editor, and the make other personal use of the work. © 2008 I-Tech Education and Publishing www.i-techonline.com Additional copies can be obtained from: publication@ars-journal.com First published May 2008 Printed in Croatia A catalogue record for this bookis available from the Austrian Library. Multi Robot Systems, Recent Advances, Edited by Aleksandar Lazinica p. cm. ISBN 978-3-902613-24-0 1. Multi Robot Systems. 2. Recent Advances. I. Aleksandar Lazinica V Preface To design a team of robots which is able to perform given tasks is a great concern of many members of robotics community. There are many problems left to be solved in order to have the fully functional robot team. Robotics community is trying hard to solve such problems (navigation, task allocation, communication, adaptation, control,…). This book represents the contributions of the top researchers in this field and will serve as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field. It is focused on the challenging issues of team architectures, vehicle learning and adapta-tion, heterogeneous group control and cooperation, task selection, dynamic autonomy, mixed initiative, and human and robot team interaction. The book consists of 16 chapters introducing both basic research and advanced develop-ments. Topics covered include kinematics, dynamic analysis, accuracy, optimization design, modelling, simulation and control of multi robot systems. This book is certainly a small sample of the research activity on Multi Robot Systems go-ing on around the globe as you read it, but it surely covers a good deal of what has been done in the field recently, and as such it works as a valuable source for researchers inter-ested in the involved subjects. Special thanks to all authors, which have invested a great deal of time to write such inter-esting and high quality chapters. Editor Aleksandar Lazinica ... - tailieumienphi.vn