A framework for coordination in multi-robot systems

Abstract

As a typical application paradigm of multiagent systems (MAS), multirobot systems (MRS) have rapidly developed over past two decades. Variety of approaches based on multiagent coordination theories are proposed to coordinate collective of robots. However, most of these approaches are only suitable for particular domain and have their respective limitations. We overview the states of the arts, main issues, and research challenges of multirobot coordination. Finally, we briefly describe an innovative framework for multirobot coordination.