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Fault diagnosis in robot swarms: an adaptive online behaviour characterisation approach

Fault diagnosis in robot swarms: an adaptive online behaviour characterisation approach
Fault diagnosis in robot swarms: an adaptive online behaviour characterisation approach

The need for an active approach to fault tolerance in swarm robotics systems is well established. This will necessarily include an approach to fault diagnosis if robot swarms are to retain long-term autonomy. This paper proposes a novel method for fault diagnosis, based around behavioural feature vectors, that incorporates real-time learning and memory. Initial results are encouraging, and show that an unsupervised learning approach is able to diagnose common electro-mechanical fault types, and arrive at an appropriate recovery option in the majority of the cases tested.

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O'Keeffe, James
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Tarapore, Danesh
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Millard, Alan G.
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Timmis, Jon
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O'Keeffe, James
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Tarapore, Danesh
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Millard, Alan G.
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Timmis, Jon
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O'Keeffe, James, Tarapore, Danesh, Millard, Alan G. and Timmis, Jon (2017) Fault diagnosis in robot swarms: an adaptive online behaviour characterisation approach. In 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017 - Proceedings. vol. 2018-January, IEEE. pp. 1-8 . (doi:10.1109/SSCI.2017.8280891).

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Abstract

The need for an active approach to fault tolerance in swarm robotics systems is well established. This will necessarily include an approach to fault diagnosis if robot swarms are to retain long-term autonomy. This paper proposes a novel method for fault diagnosis, based around behavioural feature vectors, that incorporates real-time learning and memory. Initial results are encouraging, and show that an unsupervised learning approach is able to diagnose common electro-mechanical fault types, and arrive at an appropriate recovery option in the majority of the cases tested.

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Published date: 2017
Venue - Dates: 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2017, , Honolulu, United States, 2017-11-27 - 2017-12-01

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Local EPrints ID: 420616
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420616
PURE UUID: 5e36b783-95d4-4941-b023-77c01819f706
ORCID for Danesh Tarapore: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3226-6861

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Date deposited: 11 May 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:29

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Author: James O'Keeffe
Author: Danesh Tarapore ORCID iD
Author: Alan G. Millard
Author: Jon Timmis

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