The Management of Robot‐Cluster for the Functional Cooperation in Multi Robot Systems

Research on low‐level robots has focused recently on improved cooperation and performance via multi‐robot systems. The collective cooperation of low level robots, makes possible problem solving of complicated tasks on a rudimentary level. For smooth cooperation among multi robots, an efficient scheme for robot communication in various environments is required. This paper will show a plausible approach based on physical or functional reconfiguration(s) of objectives in multi robot systems, and proposes an efficient search algorithm for functional reconfiguration. In addition, this study illustrates how the robot itself can determine if a given operative scenario is actually possible via its search for necessary functions in neighbor robots. A description of the cluster manager to control the software and the hardware in multi robot systems is included in this study.