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Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation

Robotics 2019-09-06 v1

Abstract

Multi-robot systems have begun to permeate into a variety of different fields, but collision-free navigation in a decentralized manner is still an arduous task. Typically, the navigation of high speed multi-robot systems demands replanning of trajectories to avoid collisions with one another. This paper presents an online replanning algorithm for trajectory optimization in labeled multi-robot scenarios. With reliable communication of states among robots, each robot predicts a smooth continuous-time trajectory for every other remaining robots. Based on the knowledge of these predicted trajectories, each robot then plans a collision-free trajectory for itself. The collision-free trajectory optimization problem is cast as a non linear program (NLP) by exploiting polynomial based trajectory generation. The algorithm was tested in simulations on Gazebo with aerial robots.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02502,
  title  = {Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation},
  author = {Shravan Krishnan and Govind Aadithya Rajagopalan and Sivanathan Kandhasamy and Madhavan Shanmugavel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02502},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Preliminary Draft; 7 pages and 6 figures