Robust MADER: Decentralized Multiagent Trajectory Planner Robust to Communication Delay in Dynamic Environments

Kota Kondo, Reinaldo Figueroa, Juan Rached, Jesus Tordesillas, Parker C. Lusk, Jonathan P. How

Communication delays can be catastrophic for multiagent systems. However, most existing state-of-the-art multiagent trajectory planners assume perfect communication and therefore lack a strategy to rectify this issue in real-world environments. To address this challenge, we propose Robust MADER (RMADER), a decentralized, asynchronous multiagent trajectory planner robust to communication delay. By always keeping a guaranteed collision-free trajectory and performing a delay check step, RMADER is able to guarantee safety even under communication delay. We perform an in-depth analysis of trajectory deconfliction among agents, extensive benchmark studies, and hardware flight experiments with multiple dynamic obstacles. We show that RMADER outperforms existing approaches by achieving a 100% success rate of collision-free trajectory generation, whereas the next best asynchronous decentralized method only achieves 83% success.

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