Situational awareness in rescue operations can be provided by teams of autonomous
mobile robots. Human operators are required to teleoperate the current generation of mobile
robots for this application; however, teleoperation is increasingly difficult as the number of
robots is expanded. As the number of robots is increased, each robot may interfere with one
another and eventually decrease mapping performance. Through careful consideration of
robot team coordination and exploration strategy, large numbers of mobile robots be …

Situational awareness in rescue operations can be provided by teams of autonomous
mobile robots. Human operators are required to teleoperate the current generation of mobile
robots for such applications; however, teleoperation is increasingly difficult as the number of
robots is expanded. As the number of robots is increased, each robot may also interfere with
one another and eventually decrease mapping performance. As presented here, through
careful consideration of robot team coordination and exploration strategy, large numbers of …