Cooperative Action Control Based on Evaluating Objective Achievements

This paper deals with a cooperative control method for a multi-agent system in dynamic environment. This method enables a robot to perform flexible cooperation based on the global evaluation of the achievement of objectives. Each robot communicates qualitative evaluation on the achievement level of each objective. Each robot calculates the global evaluation on the achievement of the team objective from the individual evaluation. The evaluation on the obachievement is abstracted in order to reduce the influence of variation of the evaluation value and the communication load. As an example, the method is applied to the EIGEN team robots for the Middle Size League of RoboCup, since it is necessary for the soccer robots to cooperate each other in dynamic environment. Its effectiveness was demonstrated through the RoboCup 2004 competition.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ROBOCUP
• Authors: Hikari Fujii, Masayuki Kato, Kazuo Yoshida
• Keywords: Evaluation, Global Evaluation, ROBOCUP 2005, Robots