Fault tolerant area coverage control for multiagent systems

The fault tolerance characteristics of a distributed multi-agent coverage algorithm are examined. A team of sensor-equipped mobile agents is tasked with covering a planar region of interest. A distributed, gradient-based control scheme is utilized for this purpose. The agents are assumed to consist...

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Published inMATEC Web of Conferences Vol. 188; p. 5010
Main Authors Papatheodorou, Sotiris, Tzes, Anthony
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Les Ulis EDP Sciences 01.01.2018
Subjects
Actuation
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Algorithms
Catastrophic failure analysis
Fault tolerance
Multiagent systems
Subsystems
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Summary:The fault tolerance characteristics of a distributed multi-agent coverage algorithm are examined. A team of sensor-equipped mobile agents is tasked with covering a planar region of interest. A distributed, gradient-based control scheme is utilized for this purpose. The agents are assumed to consist of three subsystems, each one of which may fail. The subsystems under examination are the actuation, sensing and the communication subsystem. Partial and catastrophic faults are examined. Several simulation studies are conducted highlighting the robustness of the distributed nature of the control scheme to these classes of faults, even when several of them happen at the same time.
ISSN:2261-236X
2274-7214
2261-236X
DOI:10.1051/matecconf/201818805010