Heterogeneous Wireless Multirobot System

A scalable platform for decentralized traffic management of a multi-agent system has been proposed. Safety of the platform is achieved with a cooperative conflict avoidance policy. Security of communications among vehicles with respect to potential external adversaries is obtained through use of cryptographic keys and rekeying policies. A prototypical implementation of the architecture has been described, and some experimental results have been reported.

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