Conflict management in multiagent robotic system: FSM and fuzzy logic approach

Intelligent agents are a new paradigm for developing complex system applications. Agent systems are based on autonomous software-hardware components (technical agents) that cooperate within an environment to perform some task. An agent can be viewed as a self-contained, concurrently executing thread of control that encapsulates some states and communicates with its environment and possibly other agents via some sort of message passing. The environment may contain other agents whose environments are disjoint with or only partially overlap with the environment of a given agent. The authors present a conflict management problem in a multiagent robotic system. The multiagent robotic system consists of a group of autonomous agents on the first (lower) level of its hierarchy, and management agents on the second (upper) level of the hierarchy