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Publication Details
Commbots: Distributed control of mobile communication relays by Brian P. Gerkey and Roger Mailler and Benoit Morisset in Proc. of the AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination (AuctionBots) pp. 51-57,
Address: Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 2006.
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Digital wireless communication networks are vital in modern life.
However, these networks rely on centralized infrastructure that is
extremely vulnerable to disaster or attack. We seek to improve the
communication environment in post-disaster scenarios by developing groups
of mobile communication relay robots, or commbots, that can be
deployed to replace damaged infrastructure. The job of a commbot is to
position itself so as to maximize overall network performance, which
presents a rich and complex distributed learning and control problem.
We have implemented three distributed algorithms and have tested
them in simulation on a variety of instances of the commbots problem.
We present results from these simulations and compare and contrast the
different approaches.
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Self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
We address the problem of controlling large numbers of small mobile robots that form a multi-hop ad hoc communication network. We employ learning, optimization, and distributed coordination techniques to enable the robots to self-organize in order to maximize network performance.
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