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Distributed Simultaneous Action and Target Assignment for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking

Robotics 2018-11-07 v2

Abstract

We study a multi-robot assignment problem for multi-target tracking. The proposed problem can be viewed as the mixed packing and covering problem. To deal with a limitation on both sensing and communication ranges, a distributed approach is taken into consideration. A local algorithm gives theoretical bounds on both the running time and approximation ratio to an optimal solution. We employ a local algorithm of max-min linear programs to solve the proposed task. Simulation result shows that a local algorithm is an effective solution to the multi-robot task allocation.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02245,
  title  = {Distributed Simultaneous Action and Target Assignment for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking},
  author = {Yoonchang Sung and Ashish Kumar Budhiraja and Ryan K. Williams and Pratap Tokekar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02245},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 9 figures, Published in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018

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