A Functional Model for Multi-Robot Control System

Abstract

The operation of multi robots has been a much-debated topic due to its potential to be applied in many different business sectors. Incheon International Airport is not an exception and we have been introducing a variety of robots to assist in airport operations and passenger experience. However, every new robot we bring to the airport leads us to implement a whole new system that monitors and manages the robot. To solve this issue, we have constructed a functional model for a multi-robot control system. Based on the model, the entire process in which multi robots collaboratively synchronize their maps, analyze the context data, and finally generate and allocate collaborative tasks is specified. Incheon Airport aims to further build upon the proposed model and eventually develop a centralized multi-robot control system that can essentially unify the data format, functions and task specifications for robots from multi-vendors.