Title :
In a team of robots the loudest is not necessarily the best
Author :
Agah, Arvin ; Bekey, George A.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Robotics & Intelligent Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The effects of communication on the task performance of simulated robot colonies are studied Robots in the colony perform tasks that require the cooperation of two robots in time and in space. A robot´s call for help is responded to by another robot, resulting in the pair performing the cask. The control of the robots is based on the concept of a tropism system cognitive architecture. The effects of the communication radius on performance of the colony is studied, and it is shown that a larger communication radius does not necessarily result in better colony performance
Keywords :
cognitive systems; cooperative systems; mobile robots; communication radius; cooperation; simulated robot colonies; tropism system cognitive architecture; Cognitive robotics; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer science; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Orbital robotics; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2559-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538380
