A mobile robots experimental environment with event-based wireless communication

María Guinaldo; Ernesto Fábregas; Gonzalo Farias; Sebastián Dormido-Canto; Dictino Chaos; José Sánchez; Sebastián Dormido

doi:10.3390/s130709396

A mobile robots experimental environment with event-based wireless communication

María Guinaldo, Ernesto Fábregas, Gonzalo Farias, Sebastián Dormido-Canto, Dictino Chaos, José Sánchez, Sebastián Dormido

SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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Abstract

An experimental platform to communicate between a set of mobile robots through a wireless network has been developed. The mobile robots get their position through a camera which performs as sensor. The video images are processed in a PC and a Waspmote card sends the corresponding position to each robot using the ZigBee standard. A distributed control algorithm based on event-triggered communications has been designed and implemented to bring the robots into the desired formation. Each robot communicates to its neighbors only at event times. Furthermore, a simulation tool has been developed to design and perform experiments with the system. An example of usage is presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9396-9413
Number of pages	18
Journal	Sensors (Switzerland)
Volume	13
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396
State	Published - Jul 2013

Keywords

Distributed control systems
Embedded systems
Mobile robots
Multi-agent systems
Wireless communications

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