ABSTRACT

This is a comprehensive volume on robot teams that will be the standard reference on multi-robot systems. The volume provides not only the essentials of multi-agent robotics theory but also descriptions of exemplary implemented systems demonstrating the key concepts of multi-robot research. Information is presented in a descriptive manner and augme

part |2 pages

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

chapter 1|20 pages

A Taxonomy of Multirobot Systems

chapter 2|14 pages

Taxonomies of Multirobot Task and Reward

chapter 4|44 pages

Measuring Robot Group Diversity

part |2 pages

Part II: Enabling Technologies

chapter 5|22 pages

A Polymorphic Robot Team

chapter 6|30 pages

Collaborative Multirobot Localization

chapter 8|34 pages

Symbol Grounding for Communication

chapter 9|20 pages

Marsupial Robots

part |2 pages

Part III: Robot Team Case Studies