Distributed Task Processing By a Multiple Autonomous Robot System Using an Intelligent Data Carrier System

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a new device called intelligent data carrier (IDC) for local information management. This device is useful for multiple autonomous robot systems which operate in a dynamically changing environment. In this paper, an IDC system which consists of IDCs attached to objects or environment and reader/writers mounted on autonomous mobile robots is introduced, and various IDC applications are proposed. As an example of the applications, a method for distributed task processing using the IDC system is mentioned, and the applicability of the system is verified through numerical simulations and experiments using actual robots.