In a team of robots the loudest is not necessarily the best

Author

Agah, Arvin ; Bekey, George A.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Robotics & Intelligent Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

22-25 Oct 1995

Firstpage

3800

Abstract

The effects of communication on the task performance of simulated robot colonies are studied Robots in the colony perform tasks that require the cooperation of two robots in time and in space. A robot´s call for help is responded to by another robot, resulting in the pair performing the cask. The control of the robots is based on the concept of a tropism system cognitive architecture. The effects of the communication radius on performance of the colony is studied, and it is shown that a larger communication radius does not necessarily result in better colony performance

Keywords

cognitive systems; cooperative systems; mobile robots; communication radius; cooperation; simulated robot colonies; tropism system cognitive architecture; Cognitive robotics; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer science; Control systems; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Orbital robotics; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2559-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538380

Filename

538380