Post Triangular Rewiring Method for Shorter RRT Robot Path Planning

This paper proposed the 'Post Triangular Rewiring' method that minimizes the sacrifice of planning time and overcomes the limit of Optimality of sampling-based algorithm such as Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm. The proposed 'Post Triangular Rewiring' method creates a closer to the optimal path than RRT algorithm before application through the triangular inequality principle. The experiments were conducted to verify a performance of the proposed method. When the method proposed in this paper are applied to the RRT algorithm, the Optimality efficiency increase compared to the planning time.

A Directional Antenna based Leader-Follower Relay System for End-to-End Robot Communications

In this paper, we present a directional antenna-based leader-follower robotic relay system capable of building end-to-end communication in complicated and dynamically changing environments. The proposed system consists of multiple networked robots - one is a mobile end node and the others are leaders or followers acting as radio relays. Every follower uses directional antennas to relay a communication radio and to estimate the location of the leader robot as a sensory device. For bearing estimation, we employ a weight centroid algorithm (WCA) and present a theoretical analysis of the use of WCA for this work. Using a robotic convoy method, we develop online, distributed control strategies that satisfy the scalability requirements of robotic network systems and enable cooperating robots to work independently. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated by conducting extensive real-world experiments that successfully build actual communication between two end nodes.