REST-A and intercycle messages

  • Authors:
  • Michael Bergeret;Abdelkader Gouaïch

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microlectronique de Montpellier, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microlectronique de Montpellier, France

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article describes a way to handle intercycle messages or emergency signals received by an agent during a cycle. Since the real world is more continuous than the agent cycle, these perceptions could be analyzed too late. A framework called REST-A which take care of agents concepts and time bounds restriction has already been proposed. The agent abstract machine in that framework uses taskgrams. Taskgrams are units of evaluation composed by a behavior and its associated set of perceptions. In this paper we intend to propose a way to manage those important events in the REST-A framework. This could be done using two different ways: (i) by adding post-conditions to taskgrams and pre-process all received messages to emit fluents, (ii) by adding a special cycle to manage intercycle messages.