Title :
Don´t let player get stuck!: Increasing the autonomy of agents
Author :
Wieczerzak, Grzegorz ; Koztowski, K.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Control & Syst. Eng., Poznan Univ. of Technol., Poland
Abstract :
There is still a lack of methods to build multi-robot systems that might be easily modified or expanded on new functional blocks. Moreover, one of the most popular paradigms in robotics, the behavior-based control, despite of its ability to provide architectural transparency and intuitive means of describing the behaviors of robots, does not allow us to predict final quality and performance of the system. To increase safety of robots and the sustainment of their operations, for example, we can consider all the potential of sensors. In this paper we present current state of our multi-agent architecture, exhibiting their reactive properties. We present a simple trap recovery behavior, which can be executed by robots in a case of abnormal situations, e.g. hardware malfunction. On the other hand, we specify a multi-robot construction domain, which will serve as a scalable testbed for our control strategy.
Keywords :
adaptive systems; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems; adaptability; agent autonomy; architectural transparency; behavior-based control; hardware malfunction; multiagent architecture; multiagent systems; multirobot systems; robot behaviors; robot safety; robotics; sensors; trap recovery behavior; visual formalism; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Mechanical factors; Mobile robots; Multirobot systems; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems; Safety; Systems engineering and theory; Multi-agent systems; adaptability; visual for-malism;
Conference_Titel :
Robot Motion and Control, 2005. RoMoCo '05. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
83-7143-266-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROMOCO.2005.201434