A communication strategy for cooperative robots

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new language of communication between cooperative mobile robots. Generally, in order to interact they must exchange various information. In mobile robotics, communication can generally only be performed using HF channel. Originally, our language and protocol are designed to carry out safe communication between several ICAR agents (intelligent cooperative autonomous robots), but they can be used to perform another type of communication. We consider mobile robots which must be able to achieve some tasks given by another one, or a supervisor. We are developing a dynamically extendable (i.e. while robots are performing their missions) language which supports nine conversation types and works with twenty six message types. Because of communications nature (radio link), we use macro messages to reduce network congestion.