Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing
Abstract
Recently, auction methods have been investigated as effective, decentralized methods for multi-robot coordination. Experimental research has shown great potential, but has not been complemented yet by theoretical analysis. In this paper we contribute a theoretical analysis of the performance of auction methods for multi-robot routing.We suggest a generic framework for auction-based multi-robot routing and analyze a variety of bidding rules for different team objectives. This is the first time that auction methods are shown to offer theoretical guarantees for such a variety of bidding rules and team objectives. Download: Bibtex: @INPROCEEDINGS{ Lagoudakis-RSS-05, AUTHOR = {Michail G. Lagoudakis and Evangelos Markakis and David Kempe and Pinar Keskinocak and Anton Kleywegt and Sven Koenig and Craig Tovey and Adam Meyerson and Sonal Jain}, TITLE = {Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, YEAR = {2005}, ADDRESS = {Cambridge, USA}, MONTH = {June}, DOI = {10.15607/RSS.2005.I.045} }