A taxonomy for multi-agent robotics

被引:54
作者
Dudek, G [1 ]
Jenkin, MRM [1 ]
Milios, E [1 ]
Wilkes, D [1 ]
机构
[1] YORK UNIV, DEPT COMP SCI, N YORK, ON M3J 1P3, CANADA
关键词
mobile robotics; robotic collectives;
D O I
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中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 [模式识别与智能系统]; 0812 [计算机科学与技术]; 0835 [软件工程]; 1405 [智能科学与技术];
摘要
A key difficulty in the design of multi-agent robotic systems is the size and complexity of the space of possible designs. In order to make principled design decisions, an understanding of the many possible system configurations is essential. To this end, we present a taxonomy that classifies multi-agent systems according to communication, computational and other capabilities. We survey existing efforts involving multi-agent systems according to their positions in the taxonomy. We also present additional results concerning multi-agent systems, with the dual purposes of illustrating the usefulness of the taxonomy in simplifying discourse about robot collective properties, and also demonstrating that a collective can be demonstrably more powerful than a single unit of the collective.
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页码:375 / 397
页数:23
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