A brief survey and analysis of multi-robot communication and coordination

Abstract

Robot navigation is one of the basic problem in robotics. In the field of multi robot systems, it has become an interesting area for researchers to design algorithms that co-ordinate the movement and control the communication of multiple robots. A big challenge in this area is to design a suitable framework which makes multiple robots to work as a team to perform their task and reach their goal. In this paper, we present a brief survey of various researches being carried out in the field of multi-robot coordination and communication. We also present a framework for multi robot coordination and communication with the help of cloud. In this framework, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been used for coordination whereas Cluster Head Gateway Switch Routing (CGSR) protocol is used for communication among the robots.