{"id":109855,"date":"2020-07-13T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-algorithm-coordinates-complex-behaviors-between-hundreds-of-robots-in-a-fraction-of-the-time"},"modified":"2020-07-13T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:43:11","slug":"new-algorithm-coordinates-complex-behaviors-between-hundreds-of-robots-in-a-fraction-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-algorithm-coordinates-complex-behaviors-between-hundreds-of-robots-in-a-fraction-of-the-time","title":{"rendered":"New Algorithm Coordinates Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots in a Fraction of the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JH_Gmwz0wvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new approach to designing motion plans for multiple robots grows \u201ctrees\u201d in the search space to solve complex problems in a fraction of the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In one of the more memorable scenes from the 2002 blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise is forced to hide from a swarm of spider-like robots scouring a towering apartment complex. While most viewers are likely transfixed by the small, agile bloodhound replacements, a computer engineer might marvel instead at their elegant control system.<\/p>\n<p>In a building several stories tall with numerous rooms, hundreds of obstacles and thousands of places to inspect, the several dozen robots move as one cohesive unit. They spread out in a search pattern to thoroughly check the entire building while simultaneously splitting tasks so as to not waste time doubling back on their own paths or re-checking places other robots have already visited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach to designing motion plans for multiple robots grows \u201ctrees\u201d in the search space to solve complex problems in a fraction of the time. In one of the more memorable scenes from the 2002 blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise is forced to hide from a swarm of spider-like robots scouring a towering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}