Robust MADER: Decentralized and asynchronous multiagent trajectory planner robust to communication delay

K Kondo, J Tordesillas, R Figueroa… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
K Kondo, J Tordesillas, R Figueroa, J Rached, J Merkel, PC Lusk, JP How
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although communication delays can disrupt multiagent systems, most of the existing
multiagent trajectory planners lack a strategy to address this issue. State-of-the-art
approaches typically assume perfect communication environments, which is hardly realistic
in real-world experiments. This paper presents Robust MADER (RMADER), a decentralized
and asynchronous multiagent trajectory planner that can handle communication delays
among agents. By broadcasting both the newly optimized trajectory and the committed …
Although communication delays can disrupt multiagent systems, most of the existing multiagent trajectory planners lack a strategy to address this issue. State-of-the-art approaches typically assume perfect communication environments, which is hardly realistic in real-world experiments. This paper presents Robust MADER (RMADER), a decentralized and asynchronous multiagent trajectory planner that can handle communication delays among agents. By broadcasting both the newly optimized trajectory and the committed trajectory, and by performing a delay check step, RMADER is able to guarantee safety even under communication delay. RMADER was validated through extensive simulation and hardware flight experiments and achieved a 100% success rate of collision-free trajectory generation, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches.
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