De-Centralized Multi Robot Co-Ordination and Communication

Co-ordination in Multi-Agent Systems

Shared Potential Fields and their place in a multi-robot co-ordination taxonomy

Previously our novel Shared Potential Field (SPF) method has been introduced and compared against a non-sharing control in both simulation and laboratory settings. In this paper, extended from a paper presented at the CIRAS2008 conference,we compare the SPF against an existing type of robot architecture, a hybrid robotic system. The SPF method is compared to the traditional potential field meth...

Communication and co-ordination practices in software engineering projects

In this paper we report on the investigation, description and analysis of communication and co-ordination practices in software engineering projects. We argue that existing models of the software process do not adequately address the situated, day-to-day practices in which software engineers collectively engage, yet it is through these practices that effective co-ordination is achieved. Drawing...

Independence and Co-ordination –

* The views expressed in this paper are personal. Most outsiders tend to base their analysis of the future of the Eurosystem on the shape of the Federal Reserve System in the US. This paper argues that the US model is inappropriate. It suggests that the Eurosystem is pursuing a different arrangement, where the balance of power in the national central banks rather than in the centre may continue...

Co-ordination and Specialisation

This paper addresses the problem of division of labour as an evolutionary process in which co-ordinated agents attempt problem-solving as a search in problem space. Co-ordination stress and learning trigger adaptation but as complexity rises radical solutions are sought prompting radical organisational as well as technological change. The analytical issues involved are further explored by resor...