In this article we study the application of a consensus approach in the field of collective robotics. The achievement of consensus for a group of distributed robots without a leader was studied. It is shown by the results of the experiments that the robots are able to be put in one state within a finite period of time. No dependence was found on the number of robots and the time for which consensus was reached, however the convergence time depends on the amount of dislocation of the agent, which is most distant at the initial moment of time from the final state of the agents.
Vanya Markova
Ventseslav Shopov
Institute of Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv
Bulgaria
e-mail: markovavanya@yahoo.com
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Consensus protocol
Non-holonomic robots
Distributed decision making
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