Title : 
Cooperation between distributed agents through self-organisation
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
VUB AI Lab., Brussels, Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The paper uses a behavior-based approach to tackle the problem of cooperation between distributed agents. It focuses on the use of self-organisation and dissipative structures to establish emergent functionality. Other principles such as randomness the subsumption architecture, and the gradient field are also used. Results of computational experiments are presented
         
        
            Keywords : 
artificial intelligence; robots; self-adjusting systems; behavior-based approach; dissipative structures; distributed agents; emergent functionality; gradient field; randomness; self-organisation; subsumption architecture; Artificial intelligence; Calculus; Concrete; Fault tolerance; Gold; Robots; Steel; Tin; Vehicles; Workstations;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Intelligent Robots and Systems '90. 'Towards a New Frontier of Applications', Proceedings. IROS '90. IEEE International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Ibaraki
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IROS.1990.262534