REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks

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Hauptverfasser: Maresca, Fabio, Romero, Arnau, Delgado, Carmen, Sciancalepore, Vincenzo, Paradells, Josep, Costa-Pérez, Xavier
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author Maresca, Fabio
Romero, Arnau
Delgado, Carmen
Sciancalepore, Vincenzo
Paradells, Josep
Costa-Pérez, Xavier
author_facet Maresca, Fabio
Romero, Arnau
Delgado, Carmen
Sciancalepore, Vincenzo
Paradells, Josep
Costa-Pérez, Xavier
contents Smart factories enhance production efficiency and sustainability, but emergencies like human errors, machinery failures and natural disasters pose significant risks. In critical situations, such as fires or earthquakes, collaborative robots can assist first-responders by entering damaged buildings and locating missing persons, mitigating potential losses. Unlike previous solutions that overlook the critical aspect of energy management, in this paper we propose REACT, a smart energy-aware orchestrator that optimizes the exploration phase, ensuring prolonged operational time and effective area coverage. Our solution leverages a fleet of collaborative robots equipped with advanced sensors and communication capabilities to explore and navigate unknown indoor environments, such as smart factories affected by fires or earthquakes, with high density of obstacles. By leveraging real-time data exchange and cooperative algorithms, the robots dynamically adjust their paths, minimize redundant movements and reduce energy consumption. Extensive simulations confirm that our approach significantly improves the efficiency and reliability of search and rescue missions in complex indoor environments, improving the exploration rate by 10% over existing methods and reaching a map coverage of 97% under time critical operations, up to nearly 100% under relaxed time constraint.
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spellingShingle REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks
Maresca, Fabio
Romero, Arnau
Delgado, Carmen
Sciancalepore, Vincenzo
Paradells, Josep
Costa-Pérez, Xavier
Robotics
Networking and Internet Architecture
Smart factories enhance production efficiency and sustainability, but emergencies like human errors, machinery failures and natural disasters pose significant risks. In critical situations, such as fires or earthquakes, collaborative robots can assist first-responders by entering damaged buildings and locating missing persons, mitigating potential losses. Unlike previous solutions that overlook the critical aspect of energy management, in this paper we propose REACT, a smart energy-aware orchestrator that optimizes the exploration phase, ensuring prolonged operational time and effective area coverage. Our solution leverages a fleet of collaborative robots equipped with advanced sensors and communication capabilities to explore and navigate unknown indoor environments, such as smart factories affected by fires or earthquakes, with high density of obstacles. By leveraging real-time data exchange and cooperative algorithms, the robots dynamically adjust their paths, minimize redundant movements and reduce energy consumption. Extensive simulations confirm that our approach significantly improves the efficiency and reliability of search and rescue missions in complex indoor environments, improving the exploration rate by 10% over existing methods and reaching a map coverage of 97% under time critical operations, up to nearly 100% under relaxed time constraint.
title REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks
topic Robotics
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05904