From insect to Internet: Situated control for networked robot teams |
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Authors: | Barry Brian Werger Maja J Matari? |
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Affiliation: | (1) Interaction Laboratory, Robotics Research Labs, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781, USA |
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Abstract: | Ant-like systems take advantage of agents' situatedness to reduce or eliminate the need for centralized control or global knowledge. This reduces the need for complexity of individuals
and leads to robust, scalable systems. Such insect-inspired situated approaches have proven effective both for task performance
and task allocation. The desire for general, principled techniques for situated interaction has led us to study the exploitation
of abstract situatedness – situatedness in non-physical environments. The port-arbitrated behavior-based control approach provides a well-structured abstract behavior space in which agents can participate in situated interaction. We focus on the problem of role assumption, distributed task allocation in which each agent selects its own task-performing role. This paper details our general, principled
Broadcast of Local Eligibility (BLE) technique for role-assumption in such behavior-space-situated systems, and provides experimental
results from the CMOMMT target-tracking task.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | mobile robotics multi-robot coordination behavior-based control group behavior |
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