Distributed perception for a group of legged robots

Perception problem in robotics has been usually faced from the individual perspective, in this work we present preliminary results of a shared perception mechanism for a group of legged robots working in a dynamic scenario. The experiments has been conducted using a group of aiBo robots in the RoboCup environment. Each individual robot has its own perception of a common interesting feature, the ball, and they altogether build a shared perception.

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