Multiple Robot Coordination for Surveillance Task Using Market Approach

The keys to utilizing the potential of multi-robot systems are cooperation and coordination. Robots nowadays are equipped with better computing, high-bandwidth communication, and many kinds of sensors and actuators. Designing an effective robot team to achieve a global task is a big challenge. In addition, robots will face more uncertainties in an unknown or dynamic environment. The main investigation of this paper focuses on multiple robot coordination based on a market approach. In simulation experiment domain, a primitive simulation framework is built based on Webots software. The scenario can be divided into three technical domains: deadlock domain, specific uncertainty domain, and fewest robot strategy vs. best efficiency strategy domain. This paper demonstrates that, to achieve surveillance task, a group of robots can collaborate to detect emergencies in an indoor environment