COOPERATIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION TO DESIGN ROBUST AND ADAPTIVE COLLECTIVES

Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes

2005

Abstract

This paper highlights the benefits of using cooperation as the engine of adaptation and robustness for multi-agent systems. Our work is based on the AMAS (Adaptive Multi-Agent System) approach which considers co-operation as a self-organization mechanism to obtain adequate emergent global behaviors for systems coupled with complex and dynamic environments. A multi-robot resource transportation task illustrates the instantiation of a cooperative agent model equipped with both reactive and anticipative cooperation rules. Various experiments underline the relevance of this approach in difficult static or dynamic environments.

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Picard G. and Gleizes M. (2005). COOPERATIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION TO DESIGN ROBUST AND ADAPTIVE COLLECTIVES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-29-5, pages 236-241. DOI: 10.5220/0001177902360241


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@conference{icinco05,
author={Gauthier Picard and Marie-Pierre Gleizes},
title={COOPERATIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION TO DESIGN ROBUST AND ADAPTIVE COLLECTIVES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2005},
pages={236-241},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001177902360241},
isbn={972-8865-29-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - COOPERATIVE SELF-ORGANIZATION TO DESIGN ROBUST AND ADAPTIVE COLLECTIVES
SN - 972-8865-29-5
AU - Picard G.
AU - Gleizes M.
PY - 2005
SP - 236
EP - 241
DO - 10.5220/0001177902360241