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Self-Organized Multi-Camera Network for a Fast and Easy Deployment of Ubiquitous Robots in Unknown Environments

To bring cutting edge robotics from research centres to social environments, the robotics community must start providing affordable solutions: the costs must be reduced and the quality and usefulness of the robot services must be enhanced. Unfortunately, nowadays the deployment of robots and the ada...

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Autores principales: Canedo-Rodriguez, Adrián, Iglesias, Roberto, Regueiro, Carlos V., Alvarez-Santos, Victor, Pardo, Xose Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23271604
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130100426
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author Canedo-Rodriguez, Adrián
Iglesias, Roberto
Regueiro, Carlos V.
Alvarez-Santos, Victor
Pardo, Xose Manuel
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description To bring cutting edge robotics from research centres to social environments, the robotics community must start providing affordable solutions: the costs must be reduced and the quality and usefulness of the robot services must be enhanced. Unfortunately, nowadays the deployment of robots and the adaptation of their services to new environments are tasks that usually require several days of expert work. With this in view, we present a multi-agent system made up of intelligent cameras and autonomous robots, which is easy and fast to deploy in different environments. The cameras will enhance the robot perceptions and allow them to react to situations that require their services. Additionally, the cameras will support the movement of the robots. This will enable our robots to navigate even when there are not maps available. The deployment of our system does not require expertise and can be done in a short period of time, since neither software nor hardware tuning is needed. Every system task is automatic, distributed and based on self-organization processes. Our system is scalable, robust, and flexible to the environment. We carried out several real world experiments, which show the good performance of our proposal.
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spelling pubmed-35746832013-02-25 Self-Organized Multi-Camera Network for a Fast and Easy Deployment of Ubiquitous Robots in Unknown Environments Canedo-Rodriguez, Adrián Iglesias, Roberto Regueiro, Carlos V. Alvarez-Santos, Victor Pardo, Xose Manuel Sensors (Basel) Article To bring cutting edge robotics from research centres to social environments, the robotics community must start providing affordable solutions: the costs must be reduced and the quality and usefulness of the robot services must be enhanced. Unfortunately, nowadays the deployment of robots and the adaptation of their services to new environments are tasks that usually require several days of expert work. With this in view, we present a multi-agent system made up of intelligent cameras and autonomous robots, which is easy and fast to deploy in different environments. The cameras will enhance the robot perceptions and allow them to react to situations that require their services. Additionally, the cameras will support the movement of the robots. This will enable our robots to navigate even when there are not maps available. The deployment of our system does not require expertise and can be done in a short period of time, since neither software nor hardware tuning is needed. Every system task is automatic, distributed and based on self-organization processes. Our system is scalable, robust, and flexible to the environment. We carried out several real world experiments, which show the good performance of our proposal. MDPI 2012-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3574683/ /pubmed/23271604 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130100426 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23271604
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130100426
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