Multi-agent software architecture for autonomous robots: a practical approach

• Autorzy: Skrzypczyński P.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper analyses the issues of designing software for an autonomous robot, which is perceived as a real-time, multi-stage data processing system. We focus on a functional analysis of the data-driven world-modelling and motion planning tasks performed by the robot, and then we develop a multi-agent software architecture, which guarantees flexible use of sensors and world representations. We demonstrate use of this architecture on two practical examples: an autonomous indoor mobile robot, which can be applied for janitorial services or as an AGV in flexible manufacturing, and on a walking robot, which is intended for reconnaissance and search missions, e.g. in hostile or polluted industrial environments.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

autonomous robots; software architectures; blackboard systems; multi-agent paradigm

PL

robot autonomiczny; architektura oprogramowania; paradygmat agentowy

• Wydawca: Production Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Polish Association for Production Management
• Czasopismo: Management and Production Engineering Review
• Rocznik: 2010
• Tom: Vol. 1, No. 4
• Strony: 55--66
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 23 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Skrzypczyński P.

• Poznań University of Technology, Institute of Control and Information Engineering, Piotrowo 3A, 60-965 Poznań, Poland, phone: [phone],

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