Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems

Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems

Multiple cooperating robots are able to complete many tasks more quickly and reliably than one robot alone. Communication between the robots can multiply their capabilities and e ectiveness, but to what extent? In this research, the importance of communication in robotic societies is investigated through experiments on both simulated and real robots. Performance was measured for three di erent ...

Cooperative Multiagent Robotic Systems

Fukuda was among the rst to consider teams of robots working together [9.]. His cellular robot system (CEBOT) is a collection of heterogeneous robotic agents which are capable of assembling and disassembling themselves. Imagine, for example, a self-assembling ship in bottle. This ability to allow complex structures to be constructed on-site and the additional capability of recon guring the comb...

Reconfigurability in Reactive Multiagent Systems

Reactive agents are suitable for representing physical resources in manufacturing control systems. An important challenge of agent-based manufacturing control systems is to develop formal and structured approaches to support their specification and verification. This paper proposes a logic-based approach, by generalising that of model checking multiagent systems, for the reconfigurability of re...

Reactive Robotic Systems

Line-of-Sight Constrained Exploration for Reactive Multiagent Robotic Teams

In this paper we investigate how a team of robotic agents can selforganize for the exploration of a building subject to the constraint of maintaining line-of-sight communications. Three different behavioral strategies (anchored wander, quadrant-biased anchored wander, and informed exploration) have been developed and tested in simulation. The results are demonstrated within the context of the M...