Consideration on cooperation of multiple autonomous mobile robots-introduction to modest cooperation

Abstract

Describes an approach to the cooperation of multiple autonomous mobile robots from a standpoint of a robot which uses environmental resources while working toward its goal. Since robots are independent from each other, a meaningful cooperation of such robots is an avoidance of collisions while accessing the resources. To achieve such cooperation, the authors propose a key behavior of 'not to interfere others', which they call 'the modest cooperation'. The paper explains the idea about this concept. Furthermore, discussion about decision making mechanism of multiple autonomous robots systems and how to apply the concept to these systems are included. Deadlock problems and methods for their resolution are also discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>