Event based distributed real-time communication architecture for multi-agent systems

Author

Zweigle, Oliver ; Kappeler, U. ; Häussermann, Kai ; Levi, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Image Understanding, Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 2 2010

Firstpage

503

Lastpage

510

Abstract

In this paper an event-based distributed real-time communication architecture for multi-agent systems is presented. The architecture was designed regarding the needs of hardware-based multi-agent systems, especially robotic systems. This includes in particular fast and reliable transportation of messages in unstable wireless networks. Furthermore the architecture is usable for different agent-based software systems and allows communication between different systems even if they have a complete different representation of internal data. The architecture was evaluated in the RoboCup scenario with a multi-agent system of 5 robots interacting in a highly dynamic environment. Using this system, the RoboCup team of the University of Stuttgart won the RoboCup German Open Championship and World Championship in 2009.

Keywords

control engineering computing; multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems; RoboCup; agent based software systems; event based distributed real time communication architecture; multiagent systems; robotic systems; unstable wireless networks; Computer architecture; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Real time systems; Robots; Sockets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT), 2010 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8567-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-88678-30-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIT.2010.5711108

Filename

5711108