Cooperative multi-robot foraging based on anxiety conception and auction method

Abstract

Few is taken into account about the application occasion problem of the auction method for the cooperative multi-robot foraging.To solve the problem,anxiety conception is introduced.A algorithm,anxiety and auction cooperation foraging algorithms,combined anxiety conception with auction method,is presented.The quantification of its anxiety degree reflects the robot's evaluation about the condition of the environment,its teammates and itself.The anxiety degree also reflects the robot's unconfidence about its foraging with its own strength and reflects the robot's acceptability to the auction proposed by its teammates.Experiment results show that,compared with the only auction method,the proposed method can improve the efficiency of performing multi-robot foraging.