A Survey of Multi-Robot Cooperation and Control

With flexible architecture and high adaptability, multi-robot system (MRS) can be widely used in many areas such as astronautics, national defense, industry, service and so on. To take the advantages of MRS, system coordination is a key problem. The dynamic and complex characteristic of the multi-agent system (MAS) always leads to dimension explosion problem, so the coordination effect will be poor if we only directly generalize the traditional negotiation, learning or evolution methods in single agent system to MAS. How to find the intrinsic characteristics of MRS and get a new way to coordinate the system is an important subject in current MRS research.