PDA based control of multiple heterogeneous robots

摘要

This paper proposed PDA based control of multiple heterogeneous robots by sharing information to perform surveillance and reconnaissance. Since heterogeneous groups were equipped with different sensor systems, they in particular allow a potentially greater degree of fault-tolerance compared to homogeneous groups. In this paper, unknown environment around robots was recognized efficiently by multiple robots using internet based PDA, where communication between PDA(user interface) and host PC(a controller for robots) is based on TCP/IP protocol. Each of the robots collects sensor data regarding its own motion and environment to share this information with the rest of he team during he update cycles.