Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
When multiple robots cooperate within same environment, collision avoidance is an essential technology for each robot. In order to achieve effective collision avoidance, it is desired to recognize surrounding robot's motion each other. For this purpose, it is appropriate to exchange motion information by inter-robot communication. We have proposed a local communication system for collision avoidance based on inter-robot communication. By rotating a transmitter and a receiver using a motor, spatially seamless communication toward every direction of robot's surroundings is achieved, and spatial resolution of transmission information which is changed according to transmitting direction is also improved. In this paper, we define transmitting/receiving areas for robot's surroundings and achieve information switching according to transmitting direction. Especially, a settlement of inconsistency on received data is discussed. Finally, we conducted experiments to confirm consistency of received data on a division of transmitting area.
