Multi-robot cooperation and data fusion in map-building

In this paper, multirobot system is introduced in map-building task. The data fusion and multirobot cooperation are focused on. A suitable range sensor model is addressed, and several situations that occurred in multiple robots building map are analyzed. Evidential reasoning based on Dempster-Shafer theory is used in data fusion, and cooperation strategies are presented to avoid invalid sensing information.

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