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Distributed State Estimation Using Intermittently Connected Robot Networks

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Reza Khodayi-mehr
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Yiannis Kantaros *
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Michael M. Zavlanos
DOI:10.1109/TRO.2019.2897865delete
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This paper considers the problem of distributed state estimation (DSE) using multirobot systems. The robots have limited communication capabilities and, therefore, communicate their measurements intermittently only when they are physically close to each other. To decrease the distance that the robots need to travel only to communicate, we divide them into small teams that can communicate at different locations to share information and update their beliefs. Then, we propose a new distributed scheme that combines: first, communication schedules that ensure that the network is intermittently connected, and second, sampling-based motion planning for the robots in every team with the objective to collect optimal measurements and decide a location for those robots to communicate. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first DSE framework that relaxes all network connectivity assumptions, and controls intermittent communication events so that the estimation uncertainty is minimized. We present simulation results that demonstrate significant improvement in estimation accuracy compared to methods that maintain an end-to-end connected network for all time.
Keywords:
Distributed state estimation (DSE)
intermittent connectivity
multirobot networks
sampling-based planning
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IEEE Transactions on Robotics
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