Co-operative Robot Teams in a Hospital Environment

摘要：

Co-operative teams of service robots have been a research target for several years. Real-time task distribution and scheduling was identified to be one of the key challenges for these robot teams. This paper introduces the application of a team of service robots within hospital environments. Existing approaches for task distribution and scheduling, like central and distributed scheduling for the particular scenario, are introduced. Finally an adapted approach for the scenario is presented. The underlying task distribution problem however differs from known problems, since scheduling takes the power state and equipment of a robot into account required for each task. This paper introduces the concept of IWARD with a special focus on the benefits of co-operative robot teams performing in hospitals.

关键词： IWARD Robot Service Robotic Hospital Robots Co-operative Robots Modular Robots

作者: Simon Thiel Dagmar H(a)be Micha Block

作者单位: Fraunhofer IAO,Stuttgart,Germany

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems(2009 IEEE 智能计算与智能系统国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 1746-1750

在线出版日期: 2009-11-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）