Cooperation and Communication of Autonomous Tandem Rollers in Street Construction Scenarios

Abstract

In the area of street construction, multiple heterogeneous construction machines have to cooperate in order to fulfill their tasks. While current manual coordination exploits error-prone hand-gestures, and other visual or acoustical communication, the ongoing automation of construction sites requires digital wireless high-bandwidth communication. Thereby, many-faceted communication links are required to meet the application requirements while coping with the unstructured and possibly infrastructure-less environment. In this paper, a new communication approach is presented which seamlessly integrates these multiquality wireless connections into the behavior-based control system approach to allow for a safe and robust autonomous operation of construction machine fleets.