Project MAERA Map Explorer: A Distributed Robotics Application

Distributed systems find applications in various fields such as robotics, network security etc. In the field of robotics, we can consider a team of robots working towards a common goal to be a distributed system. A team of robots mapping an area can potentially combine their information to explore a given map more efficiently than a single robot alone. We describe a simple, yet effective approach for distributed map exploration. We test the algorithm on a simulated 2D environment. We show the elegance with which the algorithm is able to localize the position of the explorer robots and how processing tasks are assigned dynamically