Dynamic configuration of a team of robots

Abstract

We study teams of autonomous robotic agents in which agents can help each other by offering information-producing resources and functionalities. Depending on the current situation and tasks, the team may need to change its functional configuration, that is, which agents provide which functionalities to whom. We propose to use knowledge-based techniques to automatically synthesize new team configurations in response to changes in the situation or tasks. This note summarizes our approach, and reports our preliminary steps in this direction.