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Toward the Concept of Robot Society: A Multi-Robot SLAM Case Study

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Over time, biological societies such as humans, ants or bees have shown us the advantages inherent to the collective work. It is based on such results that many researchers have been trying to successfully develop new approaches in Multi-Robot Systems. Nevertheless, several assumptions need to be assured for collective work to emerge. In this paper, it is presented the significance and the advantages of cooperation in the different societies bridging the gap to the concept of robot society. In order to compare the advantages of cooperative robots, it is considered essential the development of computational simulation based on the robotic cooperation in unstructured environments. Hence, a Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using Rao-Blackwellized particle filter is implemented in a simulation environment developed in the Player/ Stage platform for robot and sensor applications.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by a PhD scholarship (SFRH/BD/73382/2010) granted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) and RoboCorp.

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  1. Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Pólo II, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Micael S. Couceiro & Rui Rocha

  2. RoboCorp, Department of Electrotechnics Engineering, Engineering Institute of Coimbra, Rua Pedro Nunes, 3030-199, Coimbra, Portugal

    Micael S. Couceiro & N. M. Fonseca Ferreira

  3. Faculty of Economics of Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Av. Dias da Silva 165, 3004-512, Coimbra, Portugal

    Andria R. Lopes

  4. Coimbra School of Education, Pólo I, Praça Heróis do Ultramar, Solum, 3030-329, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela G. Ferreira

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Couceiro, M., Lopes, A., Ferreira, N., Ferreira, A., Rocha, R. (2014). Toward the Concept of Robot Society: A Multi-Robot SLAM Case Study. In: Fonseca Ferreira, N., Tenreiro Machado, J. (eds) Mathematical Methods in Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7183-3_6

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