Title
Reconfigurable robot teams: modeling and supervisory control
Abstract
Abstract—Teams of land-based, airborne, or submerged robots constitute a new breed of robotic systems for which the issue of controlled behavior arises naturally. In this brief, we model the dynamics of the robot team in the discrete-event system (DES) framework and design a reconfigurable system that can handle situations in which robot units may switch offline. In particular, we exploit the dichotomy between controllable and uncontrollable behavior to synthesize a supervisor using only controllable events, but also one whose structure adapts to uncontrollable events. This brief presents a novel method based on learning and verification for restoring supervision as well as behavioral assurance of the team. Index Terms—Autonomous vehicle groups, discrete-event sys-
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/TCST.2004.825048
Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
control system synthesis,discrete event systems,finite automata,mobile robots,multi-robot systems,robot dynamics,discrete-event system framework,reconfigurable robot teams,supervisory control,Autonomous vehicle groups,DES,discrete-event systems,modeling,software verification and validation,supervisory control
Supervisor,Social robot,Robot control,Supervisory control,Personal robot,Control engineering,Exploit,Engineering,Robot,Mobile robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
5
1063-6536
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.51
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diana Gordon-Spears160.51
Kiriakos Kiriakidis2375.70