Title :
DCP-MASR: A Dynamic Communication Protocol for Robot-Based Multi-agent Systems
Author :
Abdennadher, Slim ; Abdallah, Mustapha ; Mueller, Heinz Juergen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., German Univ. in Cairo (GUC), Cairo, Egypt
Abstract :
The Multi-Agent System technology focuses mainly on four topics: cooperation and coordination, organization, communication, and negotiation of a set of intelligent software agents. Applying these techniques to a flock of robots is difficult due to restricted computational resources of the robots. Moreover, if the robots are mobile, the communication is wireless, and there are competing groups, then a dynamic protocol is needed to realize coordination tasks. The paper proposes a dynamic communication protocol which is capable of providing flexible, fast and fault tolerant communication for robot-based Multi-Agent Systems even in flawed communication environments.
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; multi-agent systems; robots; software agents; DCP-MASR; dynamic communication protocol; dynamic protocol; fault tolerant communication; intelligent software agents; robot based multiagent systems; robot computational resources; Computational intelligence; Intelligent agent; Intelligent robots; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Robot kinematics; Software agents; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Systems (ICONS), 2010 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Menuires
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6231-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICONS.2010.10
