Multiagent Robotic Systems

Jianbing Wu author Jiming Liu author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:30th May '01

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Providing a guided tour of the pioneering work and major technical issues, Multiagent Robotic Systems addresses learning and adaptation in decentralized autonomous robots. Its systematic examination demonstrates the interrelationships between the autonomy of individual robots and the emerged global behavior properties of a group performing a cooperative task. The author also includes descriptions of the essential building blocks of the architecture of autonomous mobile robots with respect to their requirement on local behavioral conditioning and group behavioral evolution.
After reading this book you will be able to fully appreciate the strengths and usefulness of various approaches in the development and application of multiagent robotic systems. It covers:

  • Why and how to develop and experimentally test the computational mechanisms for learning and evolving sensory-motor control behaviors in autonomous robots
  • How to design and develop evolutionary algorithm-based group behavioral learning mechanisms for the optimal emergence of group behaviors
  • How to enable group robots to converge to a finite number of desirable task states through group learning
  • What are the effects of the local learning mechanisms on the emergent global behaviors
  • How to use decentralized, self-organizing autonomous robots to perform cooperative tasks in an unknown environment
    Earlier works have focused primarily on how to navigate in a spatially unknown environment, given certain predefined motion behaviors. What is missing, however, is an in-depth look at the important issues on how to effectively obtain such behaviors in group robots and how to enable behavioral learning and adaptation at the group level. Multiagent Robotic Systems examines the key methodological issues and gives you an understanding of the underlying computational models and techniques for multiagent systems.<

    • "Liu and Wu describe the major developments and technical issues related to learning, adaptation, and self-organization in multiagent robotic systems … the list of references is comprehensive … A good resource for researchers on robotic systems, which may serve as a course resource for graduate students."
    -CHOICE

    ISBN: 9780849322884

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 640g

    328 pages