Robot Navigation and Path Planning by Means of Rough Mereology

Abstract

In this research contribution, authors advocate a new relational means for intelligent robot and robot teams control and navigation. The main underlying theory is that of mereology and its extension rough mereology augmented with new concepts transferred from geometry viz. betweenness, rendered in the mereological framework. Along with the theoretical proposition, we give results of experiments showing the usefulness of the method. The proposed method allows the user to switch among teams of robot configurations which opens the way to human-coordinated steering of team configurations depending on the environment and desired work aim.