A Cooperative CiberMouse@RTSS08 Team

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

azevedo, j (Author) Other; oliveira, m (Author) Other; pacheco, p (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA2009

Pages: 251-262

14th EPIA - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2009

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 12 a 15 de Outubro de 2009

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citation

Scopus - 2 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-RVP

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04686-5_21

Abstract (EN): This paper describes the strategy and implementation details of a cooperative agent team for the CiberMouse@RTSS08, a, robotics simulation competition. The paper introduces several concepts concerning cooperative robotics, giving all overview of its applications and challenges. It also presents the CiberMouse@RTSS08 competition rules and the associated simulation system. The proposed approach is based oil a deliberative architecture, thus providing an autonomous intelligent behaviour. A probabilistic mapping procedure, based on the Bayes' theorem, is used to maintain all internal world state. Quadtrees and A* are used for path planning and plan execution. A specific methodology was developed for beacon finding. The agents cooperate oil exchanging world and beacon information. In order to overcome the simulator's broadcasting distance limitation, a communication network between the agents was, created. The paper analyses the impact; of cooperation on this particular problem, by comparing the team's performance in four different situations: communication with network and beacon exchanging, communication without network, communication without beacon exchanging and no communication at all.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12