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Decentralized Multi-Robot Information Gathering From Unknown Spatial Fields

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We present an incremental scalable motion planning algorithm for finding maximally informative trajectories for decentralized mobile robots. These robots are deployed to observe an unknown spatial field, where the informativeness… Click to show full abstract

We present an incremental scalable motion planning algorithm for finding maximally informative trajectories for decentralized mobile robots. These robots are deployed to observe an unknown spatial field, where the informativeness of observations is specified as a density function. Existing works that are typically restricted to discrete domains and synchronous planning often scale poorly depending on the size of the problem. Our goal is to design a distributed control law in continuous domains and an asynchronous communication strategy to guide a team of cooperative robots to visit the most informative locations within a limited mission duration. Our proposed Asynchronous Information Gathering with Bayesian Optimization (AsyncIGBO) algorithm extends ideas from asynchronous Bayesian Optimization (BO) to efficiently sample from a density function. It then combines them with decentralized reactive motion planning techniques to achieve efficient multi-robot information gathering activities. We provide a theoretical justification for our algorithm by deriving an asymptotic no-regret analysis with respect to a known spatial field. Our proposed algorithm is extensively validated through simulation and real-world experiment results with multiple robots.

Keywords: information; information gathering; decentralized multi; multi robot; unknown spatial; robot information

Journal Title: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Year Published: 2023

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