Mobile Wireless Network Infrastructure on Demand

02/07/2020
by   Daniel Mox, et al.
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In this work, we introduce Mobile Wireless Infrastructure on Demand: a framework for providing wireless connectivity to multi-robot teams via autonomously reconfiguring ad-hoc networks. In many cases, previous multi-agent systems either presumed on the availability of existing communication infrastructure or were required to create a network in addition to completing their objective. Instead our system explicitly assumes the responsibility of creating and sustaining a wireless network capable of satisfying the end-to-end communication requirements of a task team performing an arbitrary objective. To accomplish this goal, we propose a joint optimization framework that alternates between finding optimal network routes to support data flows between the task agents and updating the configuration of the network team to improve performance. We demonstrate our approach in a set of simulations in which a fleet of UAVs provide connectivity to a set of task agents patrolling a perimeter.

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