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Planner9, a HTN planner distributed on groups of miniature mobile robots

Magnenat, Stéphane  
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Voelkle, Martin
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Mondada, Francesco  
2009
Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Application
Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Application

Autonomous mobile robots are promising tools for operations in environments that are difficult to access for humans. When these environments are dynamic and non-deterministic, like in collapsed buildings, the robots must coordinate their actions and the use of resources using planning. This paper presents Planner9, a hierarchical task network (HTN) planner that runs on groups of miniature mobile robots. These robots have limited computational power and memory, but are well connected through Wi-Fi. Planner9 takes advantage of this connectivity to distribute the planning over different robots. We have adapted the HTN algorithm to perform parallel search using A* and to limit the number of search nodes through lifting. We show that Planner9 scales well with the number of robots, even on non-linear tasks that involve recursions in their decompositions. We show that contrary to JSHOP2, Planner9 finds optimal plans.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-10817-4_99
Web of Science ID

WOS:000279602600099

Author(s)
Magnenat, Stéphane  
Voelkle, Martin
Mondada, Francesco  
Date Issued

2009

Publisher

Springer

Publisher place

Berlin / Heidelberg

Published in
Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Application
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

5928

Start page

1013

End page

1022

Subjects

mobile robot

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distributed

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planning

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htn

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lifting

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A*

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d-bus

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zeroconf

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avahi

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[MOBOTS]

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marxbot

URL

URL

http://icira2009.robotics.sg/
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LSRO  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Application

Singapore

December 16-18, 2009

Available on Infoscience
September 5, 2009
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/42447
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