Coalition mechanisms of Driver Associate

The Driver Associate research project focuses on a multiagent paradigm that assists drivers in different aspects of driving tasks. The main goals of the project are increased safety and fuel efficiency. The system we have designed consists of a group of control agents, a coalition manager agent, and a system interface agent. Agents work autonomously to accomplish their assigned tasks. An interface agent interacts with drivers, who can override the actions of the automated system at any time. For handling any complex operation, the coalition manager can organize agents to team up, forming a coalition that allows agents to share data objects and agent capability lists. This paper describes the fundamental multiagent coalition mechanism, and details the intelligent agent-oriented programming approach.