Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models

[b]Offers an integrated presentation for path planning and motion control of cooperative mobile robots using discrete-event system principles[/b] Generating feasible paths or routes between a given starting position and a goal or target position—while avoiding obstacles—is a common issue for all mobile robots. This book formulates the problem of path planning of cooperative mobile robots by using the paradigm of discrete-event systems. It presents everything readers need to know about discrete event system models—mainly Finite State Automata (FSA) and Petri Nets (PN)—and methods for centralized path planning and control of teams of identical mobile robots. [i]Path Plannin…