Jürgen Leitner

Robot Cooperation in Space: Controlling Multi-robot Formations for Area Coverage in Space Applications Jürgen Leitner

Cooperation of multiple space assets is an increasingly interesting topic for the space agencies. This book reviews the literature related to multi-robot research with a focus on space applications. It examines de?nitions in the field of multi-robot systems and gives an overview of space applications with multiple assets cooperating. It then presents two algorithmic implementations, a simple vector-based and an AI (machine learning) approach, of multi-robot formation control for the area coverage problem. It uses a space exploration scenario, with a marsupial robot society, for tasks like mapping, habitat construction, etc. The solutions are though applicable to a wider range of applications, since area coverage is seen as one of the canonical problems in multi-robot application.