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[LSM+18] M. Lahijanian, M. Svorenova, A. Morye, B. Yeomans, D. Rao, I. Posner, P. Newman, H. Kress-Gazit, and M. Kwiatkowska. Resource-Performance Trade-off Analysis for Mobile Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , IEEE. 2018. [pdf] [bib]
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Abstract. The design of mobile autonomous robots is challenging due to the limited on-board resources such as processing power and energy. A promising approach is to generate intelligent schedules that reduce the resource consumption while maintaining best performance, or more interestingly, to trade off reduced resource consumption for a slightly lower but still acceptable level of performance. In this paper, we provide a framework to aid designers in exploring such resource-performance trade-offs and finding schedules for mobile robots, guided by questions such as “what is the minimum resource budget required to achieve a given level of performance?” The framework is based on a quantitative multi-objective verification technique which, for a collection of possibly conflicting objectives, produces the Pareto front that contains all the optimal trade-offs that are achievable. The designer then selects a specific Pareto point based on the resource constraints and desired performance level, and a correct-by-construction schedule that meets those constraints is automatically generated. We demonstrate the efficacy of this framework on several robotic scenarios in both simulations and experiments with encouraging results.

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