Grounding inference in distributed multi-robot environments

Aaron Khoo; Ian D Horswill

doi:10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00354-8

Grounding inference in distributed multi-robot environments

Aaron Khoo^*, Ian D Horswill

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

Traditional symbolic reasoning systems are typically built on a transaction model of computation, which complicates the process of synchronizing their world models with changes in a dynamic environment. This problem is exacerbated in the multi-robot case, where there are now n world models keep in synch. In this paper, we describe an inference grounding and coordination mechanism for robot teams based on tagged behavior-based systems. This approach supports a large subset of classical AI techniques while providing a novel representation that allows team members to share information efficiently. We illustrate our approach on two problems involving systematic spatial search.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	121-132
Number of pages	12
Journal	Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Volume	43
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00354-8
State	Published - May 31 2003
Event	Perceptual Anchoring: Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data in Sing - North Falmouth, MA, United States Duration: Nov 2 2001 → Nov 4 2001

Keywords

Autonomous mobile robots
Behavior-based control
Multi-robot teams

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Software
General Mathematics
Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Science Applications

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