A Cooperative Communications Platform for Safety Critical Robotics: An Experimental Evaluation

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

cunha, fm (Author) Other; braga, ram (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: ADVANCES IN PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

Pages: 151-156

8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Salamanca, SPAIN, APR 26-28, 2010

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-A0F

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12384-9_19

Abstract (EN): As the number of handicapped people increases worldwide, Intelligent Wheelchairs (IW) are becoming the solution to enable a higher degree of independence for wheelchair users. In addition, IW Projects relevance is increasing, mainly in the fields of robotics and safety-related systems due to their inherent and still unresolved problems related with environment uncertainty, safe communications and collaboration methodologies. This paper describes the development of new communication system, based on multi-agent systems (MAS) and motivated by Intelligent Wheelchair systems. It uses a message-oriented paradigm as a mean for fault-tolerant communications in open transmission systems as well as a facilitator for entity collaboration. It provides an overview of the related work in the area, the background and the main constraints to system development, contextualized an IW development project. The results achieved enable us to conclude on the effectiveness and adequacy of the proposed communication model to the field of mobile robots, as well as to conclude that it may outperform JADE in several test scenarios.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6