ALLIANCE-ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault-Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots

GUO Zhongyuan; YANG Wenjing; LI Minglong; YI Xiaodong; CAI Zhongxuan; WANG Yanzhen

doi:10.1049/cje.2018.03.001

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GUO Zhongyuan, YANG Wenjing, LI Minglong, et al., “ALLIANCE-ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault-Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 467-475, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.03.001

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GUO Zhongyuan, YANG Wenjing, LI Minglong, et al., “ALLIANCE-ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault-Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 467-475, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.03.001

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ALLIANCE-ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault-Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots

doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.03.001

State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Funds: This work is supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China (No.91648204, No.61303185, No.61532007) and State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing (No.201502-01).

Received Date: 2016-12-02
Rev Recd Date: 2017-07-07
Publish Date: 2018-05-10

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Programming control systems for mobile robots is complicated and time-consuming, due to three aspects, i.e., the robot behavior coordination, the distributed multi-robot cooperation and the robot software reusability. Subsumption model is a robust control architecture for mobile robots. ALLIANCE model extends it to multirobot systems, which is a fully distributed, fault-tolerant model. Robot operating system (ROS) provides a lot of reusable robot modules. By combining the above three, we propose a software framework named ALLIANCE-ROS for developing fault-tolerant cooperative multi-robot systems with abundant software resources available. We encapsulate the ROS facilities to build the framework prototype. We also use some high-performance plugin-based mechanism to optimize the bottom of the framework. One may use the framework-provided API conveniently to construct single-robot and multi-robot applications with all ROS resources available. This work is demonstrated by three application cases including an autonomous roving robot, a security patrol robot and multiple patrol robots. They are constructed and tested in both the simulated and the real environment. The experimental results validate the usability and availability of ALLIANCE-ROS.
- Software framework,
- Mobile robots,
- Cooperative robots,
- Fault-tolerance,
- ALLIANCE-ROS

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