Authors:
Lucia Vacariu
1
;
Mihai Chintoanu
1
;
Gheorghe Lazea
2
and
Octavian Cret
2
Affiliations:
1
Technical University of Cluj Napoca; Navigon Company Cluj Napoca Subsidiary, Romania
;
2
Technical University of Cluj Napoca; Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Keyword(s):
Mobile robots, Multiagents system, Communication, Ontology, Cooperation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Mobile Robots and Autonomous Systems
;
Robotics and Automation
Abstract:
Mobile robot applications are faced with the problem of communicating large amounts of information, whose structure and significance changes continuously. A traditional, layered style of communication creates a cooperation problem as fix protocols and message meaning cannot mediate the dynamic, novel types of behaviors mobile robots are acquiring in their environment. We propose by contrast, a non-hierarchical communication control mechanism based on the software paradigm of multiagent systems that have specialized ontologies. It is a communication at ontological level, which allows efficient changes in the content of the messages among robots and a better adaptability and specialization to changes. The intended application is a cooperative mobile robot system for monitoring, manipulating and cleaning in a supermarket. The focus of the paper is to simulate a number of well-defined, controllable and repeatable critical ontological situations encountered in this environment that valida
te the system cooperation tasks.
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