Centibots: Very Large Scale Distributed Robotic Teams

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Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19

Intelligent Systems Demonstrations

In this paper, we describe the development of Centibots, a framework for very large teams of robots that are able to perceive, explore, plan and collaborate in unknown environments. Teams consist of approximately 100 robots which can be deployed in unexplored areas and which can efficiently distribute tasks among themselves; the system also makes use of a mixed initiative mode of interaction in which a user can easily influence missions as necessary. In contrast to simulation-based systems which abstract away aspects of the environment for examining component technologies, our design reflects an integrated, end-to-end system. Fex