Multi-Robot Work Assignment Methods for Effectiveness Improvement of Deploying Service Robots
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Dai, Jingze; Yoshiuchi, Hideya; Matsuda, Tomohiro
- Source
- 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on. :1224-1229 Aug, 2019
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Nuclear Engineering
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Service robots
Robot kinematics
Robot sensing systems
Servers
Task analysis
Optimization
multi-robot
resource allocation
service robot
work assignment
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-8089
Service robot is an emerging robotic application. To be approved as an assistant or replacement for human employee, the robots should be able to solve team-level task effectively and thereby achieve high productivity. With regarded to the point, work assignment mechanism for multiple robots is essential. This paper originally gives a novel definition of effectiveness of deploying service robots from the viewpoint of multi-robot management, and then proposes a pack of multi-robot work assignment methods to improve the effectiveness by making service robots more accessible to the people who want to or are willing to use service robots. Simulation results demonstrated an improvement in the effectiveness of service deployment especially for application scenarios where the possibility of robot users is geographically uneven or changes over time.