Multi-Robot Systems, Trends and Development

Multi robot systems have recently att racted considerable att ention from roboticists as these off er the possibility of accomplishing a task that a single robot can not. A robot team may provide redundancy and perform assigned tasks in a more reliable, faster,or cheaper way.

This book is a collection of 29 excellent works and comprised of three sections: task oriented approach, bio inspired approach, and modeling/design. In the first section, applications on formation, localization/mapping, and planning are introduced. The second section is on behavior-based approach by means of artificial intelligence techniques. The last section includes research articles on development of architectures and control systems.