Refuel Scheduling for Multirobot Charging-on-Demand

Tianshuang Gao; Yan Tian; Sourabh Bhattacharya

IROS 2021poster12 citations

Refuel Scheduling for Multirobot Charging-on-Demand

Tianshuang Gao, Yan Tian, Sourabh Bhattacharya

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the refuel scheduling problem for a team of ground robots deployed in "aislelike" environments wherein the robots are constrained to move along rows. In order to maintain a minimum service rate or throughput for the ground robots, we investigate the problem of scheduling a team of mobile charging stations deployed to replace the batteries on-board the ground robots without any interruption in their task. We propose two scheduling schemes for the mobile chargers to serve the ground robots for long-term service, and derive the parameters associated with the system required for persistent uninterrupted operation.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{iros2021_refuelscheduling,
  title = {Refuel Scheduling for Multirobot Charging-on-Demand},
  author = {Tianshuang Gao and Yan Tian and Sourabh Bhattacharya},
  booktitle = {IROS 2021},
  year = {2021}
}