Link building on demand in multi-robots

Abstract

To build effective communication link between two robots while physical link did not exist in multi-robots system, a strategy of active communication link building on demand was proposed. Based on some model assumptions and definitions, so called SSS strategy was presented to build communication link in multi-robot system. And the corresponding algorithms were discussed and compared in simulation. The simulation results indicated that communication link could be built successfully by employing these algorithms and the performances of algorithm could be analyzed quantitatively by using energy consumption and time consumption of robots in link building. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.