Our Project

Group members: Yiling Qiang, Ao Sun

Motivation

Area covering is an important task for mobile robots, with many real-world applications such as floor-cleaning, de-mining, and harvesting. In recent years, there is growing interest in the use of multiple robots in coverage, motivated by efficiency and robustness.

Goals

Build a multi-robot system with at least three coordinated robots to solve the area covering problem.
- When one of the slave robots is out of charge, it moves to a certain area. Another fully-charged robot will go to where it stopped and continues its job to cover the remaining area.
- Master node coordinates which slave is working and which slave is waiting.
- Slave robots communicate with master and act according to the information they receive from master.