COMMUNICATION AT ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL IN COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS SYSTEM

Lucia Vacariu, Mihai Chintoanu, Gheorghe Lazea, Octavian Cret

2007

Abstract

Mobile robot applications are faced with the problem of communicating large amounts of information, whose structure and significance changes continuously. A traditional, layered style of communication creates a cooperation problem as fix protocols and message meaning cannot mediate the dynamic, novel types of behaviors mobile robots are acquiring in their environment. We propose by contrast, a non-hierarchical communication control mechanism based on the software paradigm of multiagent systems that have specialized ontologies. It is a communication at ontological level, which allows efficient changes in the content of the messages among robots and a better adaptability and specialization to changes. The intended application is a cooperative mobile robot system for monitoring, manipulating and cleaning in a supermarket. The focus of the paper is to simulate a number of well-defined, controllable and repeatable critical ontological situations encountered in this environment that validate the system cooperation tasks.

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Vacariu L., Chintoanu M., Lazea G. and Cret O. (2007). COMMUNICATION AT ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL IN COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-83-2, pages 455-460. DOI: 10.5220/0001620904550460


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco07,
author={Lucia Vacariu and Mihai Chintoanu and Gheorghe Lazea and Octavian Cret},
title={COMMUNICATION AT ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL IN COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2007},
pages={455-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001620904550460},
isbn={978-972-8865-83-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - COMMUNICATION AT ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL IN COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-83-2
AU - Vacariu L.
AU - Chintoanu M.
AU - Lazea G.
AU - Cret O.
PY - 2007
SP - 455
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0001620904550460