Collaborative Mobile Robot Search and Evacuation

Professor Lau, Francis Chi Moon   (Principal Investigator (PI))

Professor Flocchini Paola   (Co-Investigator)

Dr Zhang Yong   (Co-Investigator)

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2017-07-01

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Collaborative Mobile Robot Search and Evacuation

Algorithms, Mobile robots, Optimization, Robotics, Searching

Software,Computer Science Fundamentals

Engineering (E)

17210017

General Research Fund (GRF)

2017

Completed

1) To study the offline and online problems of searching by mobile robots and to obtain solutions that are optimal or near-optimal in time and energy consumption (Problem 1). The robots will communicate by either meeting or via localized wireless communication, and all must terminate in the end; 2) To investigate the search and evacuation problem with respect to velocities, considering different maximal speeds (Problem 2) and different search and move speeds (Problem 3); 3) To consider the search problems with respect to the energy consumption (Problem 4) and cases where some of robots could be faulty or fail (Problem 5); 4) To implement the solutions (or a representative one) that can demonstrate the feasibility of the solutions and their superiority to brute-force or naive solutions to the problems (Problem X).