Toward the concept of robot society: A multi-robot SLAM casestudy

Abstract

Over time, biological societies such ashumans, ants or bees have shown us the advantages inherent to the collective work. It is based on such results that many researchers have been trying to successfully develop new approaches in Multi-Robot Systems. Nevertheless, several assumptions need to be assured for collective work toemerge. In this paper, it is presented the significance and the advantages of cooperation in thedifferent societies bridging the gap to the concept of robot society. In order to compare th advantages of cooperative robots, it is considered essential the development of computational simulation based on the robotic cooperation in unstructured environments. Hence, a Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using Rao-Blackwellized particle filter is implemented ina simulation environment developed in the Player/Stage platform for robot and sensor applications.