INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World

Nicolas Pépin, Olivier Simonin, François Charpillet

2009

Abstract

In this paper we propose to pave indoor floors with ``communicating'' tiles in order to extend perception and communication of mobile agents and more generally to implement environment-based multi-agent models. Each tile supports a real-time process which ensures communication with its neighbours and any agent laid on it. We details algorithms required for tiles to interact with mobile agents and to carry out distributed processes. Then we apply our approach to a behavior-based model, by splitting the model into the tiles and a simple agent. We show this new version is equivalent to the original one and so discuss its advantages.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pépin N., Simonin O. and Charpillet F. (2009). INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8111-66-1, pages 513-519. DOI: 10.5220/0001661805130519

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart09,
author={Nicolas Pépin and Olivier Simonin and François Charpillet},
title={INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2009},
pages={513-519},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001661805130519},
isbn={978-989-8111-66-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World
SN - 978-989-8111-66-1
AU - Pépin N.
AU - Simonin O.
AU - Charpillet F.
PY - 2009
SP - 513
EP - 519
DO - 10.5220/0001661805130519

in Harvard Style

Pépin N., Simonin O. and Charpillet F. (2009). INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8111-66-1, pages 513-519. DOI: 10.5220/0001661805130519

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart09,
author={Nicolas Pépin and Olivier Simonin and François Charpillet},
title={INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2009},
pages={513-519},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001661805130519},
isbn={978-989-8111-66-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - INTELLIGENT TILES - Putting Situated Multi-Agents Models in Real World
SN - 978-989-8111-66-1
AU - Pépin N.
AU - Simonin O.
AU - Charpillet F.
PY - 2009
SP - 513
EP - 519
DO - 10.5220/0001661805130519