Hajieghrary, H.; Mox, D.; Hsieh, M.A. Information Theoretic Source Seeking Strategies for Multiagent Plume Tracking in Turbulent Fields. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2017, 5, 3.
Hajieghrary, H.; Mox, D.; Hsieh, M.A. Information Theoretic Source Seeking Strategies for Multiagent Plume Tracking in Turbulent Fields. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2017, 5, 3.
Hajieghrary, H.; Mox, D.; Hsieh, M.A. Information Theoretic Source Seeking Strategies for Multiagent Plume Tracking in Turbulent Fields. J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2017, 5, 3.
Hajieghrary, H.; Mox, D.; Hsieh, M.A. Information Theoretic Source Seeking Strategies for Multiagent Plume Tracking in Turbulent Fields. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2017, 5, 3.
Abstract
We present information theoretic search strategies for single and multi-robot teams to localize the source of biochemical contaminants in turbulent flows. The robots synthesize the information provided by sporadic and intermittent sensor readings to optimize their exploration strategy. By leveraging the spatio-temporal sensing capabilities of a mobile sensing network, our strategies result in control actions that maximize the information gained by the team while optimizing the time spent localizing the position of the biochemical source. By leveraging the team's ability to obtain simultaneous measurements at different locations, we show how a multi-robot team is able to speed up the search process resulting in a collaborative information theoretic search strategy. We validate our proposed strategies in both simulations and experiments.
Keywords
multi-agent systems; information theory; distributed control; value of information; collaborative search
Subject
Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering
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