The multi-robot systems(MRS)exploration and fire searching problem is an important application of mobile robots which require massive computation capability that exceeds the ability of traditional MRS′s.This paper pr...The multi-robot systems(MRS)exploration and fire searching problem is an important application of mobile robots which require massive computation capability that exceeds the ability of traditional MRS′s.This paper propose a cloud-based hybrid decentralized partially observable semi-Markov decision process(HDec-POSMDPs)model.The proposed model is implemented for MRS exploration and fire searching application based on the Internet of things(IoT)cloud robotics framework.In this implementation the heavy and expensive computational tasks are offloaded to the cloud servers.The proposed model achieves a significant improvement in the computation burden of the whole task relative to a traditional MRS.The proposed model is applied to explore and search for fire objects in an unknown environment;using different sets of robots sizes.The preliminary evaluation of this implementation demonstrates that as the parallelism of computational instances increase the delay of new actuation commands which will be decreased,the mean time of task completion is decreased,the number of turns in the path from the start pose cells to the target cells is minimized and the energy consumption for each robot is reduced.展开更多
基金Corresponding au-thor:Ayman El Shenawy received the Ph.D.degree in systems and computer engineer-ing from Al-Azhar University,Egypt in 2013.He is currently working as a lecturer at Systems and Computers Engineering Department,Faculty of Engineering Al-Azhar University,Egypt.He already de-veloped some breakthrough research in the mentioned areas.He made significant con-tributions to the stated research fields.His research interests include artificial intelligent methods,robotics and machine learning.E-mail:eaymanelshenawy@azhar.edu.eg ORCID iD:0000-0002-1309-644。
文摘The multi-robot systems(MRS)exploration and fire searching problem is an important application of mobile robots which require massive computation capability that exceeds the ability of traditional MRS′s.This paper propose a cloud-based hybrid decentralized partially observable semi-Markov decision process(HDec-POSMDPs)model.The proposed model is implemented for MRS exploration and fire searching application based on the Internet of things(IoT)cloud robotics framework.In this implementation the heavy and expensive computational tasks are offloaded to the cloud servers.The proposed model achieves a significant improvement in the computation burden of the whole task relative to a traditional MRS.The proposed model is applied to explore and search for fire objects in an unknown environment;using different sets of robots sizes.The preliminary evaluation of this implementation demonstrates that as the parallelism of computational instances increase the delay of new actuation commands which will be decreased,the mean time of task completion is decreased,the number of turns in the path from the start pose cells to the target cells is minimized and the energy consumption for each robot is reduced.