A Possible Approach to the Development of Robotic Multi-Agent Systems

The design of a an agent system for robotics is a problem that involves aspects coming from many different disciplines (robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, software engineering). The most difficult part of it often consists in producing and tuning the algorithms that incorporates the robot behavior (planning, obstacle avoidance, ) and abilities (vision, manipulation, navigation, ). It is frequent that the reuse of this parts is left to a copy and paste procedure from previous applications to the new one. In so doing many problems could arises. We propose a comprehensive approach for multi-agent systems oriented to robotics applications that uses a complete design methodology supported by a specific design tools and a pattern repository that interacting each other and with the designer allow the production of a coherent design that easily incorporates patterns coming from previously experienced features and automatically produces a large part of the final code

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IAT
• Authors: Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Antonio Chella
• Keywords: Complete Design Methodology, IAT 2003, Intelligent Agent, Obstacle Avoidance, Specific Design Tools