Helping Robots Collaborate on Missions

Researchers at MIT developed an algorithm to help coordinate robot teams for complex missions like mapping or search-and-rescue.

via MIT

Consider a search-and-rescue mission to find a hiker lost in the woods. Rescuers might want to deploy a squad of wheeled robots to roam the forest, perhaps with the aid of drones scouring the scene from above. The benefits of a robot team are clear. But orchestrating that team is no simple matter. How to ensure the robots aren’t duplicating each other’s efforts or wasting energy on a convoluted search trajectory?

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