Introduction
Over recent years robot vehicle technology has matured to allow groups of mobile robots to be simultaneously deployed as Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), whose advantages include robustness to failures, reduced completion time and the ability to tackle more complex goals. A major design consideration for heterogeneous groups is effective coordination; often handled using task allocation procedures.
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Ward, P., Cameron, S. (2011). Coordination in Multi-tiered Robotic Search. In: Groß, R., Alboul, L., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M., Prescott, T.J., Penders, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_39
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