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Robust Multi-Robot Object Localization Using Fuzzy Logic
J-P. Canovas, K. LeBlanc, and A. Saffiotti
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Abstract
Cooperative localization of objects is an important challenge in
multi-robot systems. We propose a new approach to this problem where we
see each robot as an expert which shares unreliable information about
object locations. The information provided by different robots is then
combined using fuzzy logic techniques, in order to reach a
consensus between the robots. This contrasts with most current
probabilistic techniques, which average information from different
robots in order to obtain a tradeoff, and can thus incur
well-known problems when information is unreliable. In addition, our
approach does not assume that the robots have accurate
self-localization. Instead, uncertainty in the pose of the sensing
robot is propagated to object position estimates. We present
experimental results obtained on a team of Sony AIBO robots, where we
share information about the location of the ball in the RoboCup domain.
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