Pattern Formation For Cooperative Mobile Robots

Mohd Razali , Mohamad Sapiee and Aminurrashid , Noordin and Mohd Hanif , Che Hasan and Zamani, Md. Sani and Mohd Farriz , Md Basar (2011) Pattern Formation For Cooperative Mobile Robots. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Today industry needs to be supplied with various techniques which enhance process performance and various methodologies to be adopted that are capable of being used across a spectrum of industrial processing operations and on a wide range of products. One of the tasks in industry is the load sharing application especially in the manufacturing sector where industrial robot automation is being used in various types of application to perform any single task. The interest in cooperative systems typically arises when certain tasks are either too complex to be performed by a single robot or when there are distinct benefits that arise by cooperation of many simple robots. In this research, we focus on the development of a cooperative mobile robot system that can maintain a specific distance between the robots in the system during motion. Such cooperative system is intended to be capable in performing tasks like payload holding and long material transfer, cheaper and better than would be possible by a single all-powerful robot. This research studies a synchronous movement for pattern formation using two mobile robots. A square or rectangular pattern pathway will be formed through both mobile robots movement. The first robot communicates by transmitting signal to the second robot and the second robot will follow the first robot in a synchronous movement. During the movement, both mobile robots must maintain a fixed distance between them until the path is completed.

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