A Framework for Task Planning in Heterogeneous Multi Robot Systems Based on Robot Capabilities

Authors

  • Jennifer Buehler University of New South Wales
  • Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v28i1.9056

Keywords:

Robotics, Multi Robot Systems, Planning and Scheduling, Robot Task Planning, Robot Capabilities

Abstract

In heterogeneous multi-robot teams, robustness and flexibility are increased by the diversity of the robots, each contributing different capabilities. Yet platform-independence is desirable when planning actions for the various robots. We propose a platform-independent model of robot capabilities which we use as a planning domain. We extend existing planning techniques to support two requirements: generating new objects during planning; and, required concurrency of actions due to data flow which can be cyclic. The first requires online action instantiation, the second a small extension of the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL): allowing predicates in continuous effects. We evaluate the planner on benchmark domains and present results on an example object transportation task in simulation.

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Published

2014-06-21

How to Cite

Buehler, J., & Pagnucco, M. (2014). A Framework for Task Planning in Heterogeneous Multi Robot Systems Based on Robot Capabilities. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v28i1.9056