Análisis de arquitecturas existentes para robótica colectiva y desarrollo de nuevas soluciones que mejoren las identificadas

Abstract

This thesis is aimed to multi-robot architectures in general, without size of collective or application environment restrictions. The attributes that describe the architectures and multi-robot systems are identified and documented. These attributes contribute to generate metrics of the architectures’ relevant aspects that, in turn, are used to quantify the capacities. The metrics compose an evaluation system that rely on the simulation of the relevant aspects such as coordination, adaption, or interoperability. Results from the evaluation system allow architectures comparison and selection in order to implement a new multi-robot system. The evaluation system enables the quick evaluation of an architecture modifications. This thesis also propose a new architecture trying to cover all multi-robot systems based on reusing the system components as needed; This architecture makes easy to operate with other systems. A message protocol (a kind of language between the robots) is defined containing the minimal set of operations that the individuals must implement in order to carry any task. The evaluation system is applied to this new architecture yielding better results in most of the metrics than the other architectures evaluated.