A Role-Based Approach to Robot Agent Team Design

Robot team work is a typical collaborative activity. How to organize robot teams and design robots are important and complex tasks. This paper explores the properties of agents and agent systems, introduces and revises the role-based collaboration model E-CARGO, demonstrates the essential design concerns of roles, agents, agent collaboration and agent teams, and proposes that roles can be used to form a fundamental structure, i.e., role nets, to design robot agent teams. Finally, it points out the research topics of role-based design for robot agent systems.