Analysing the behaviour of robot teams through relational sequential pattern mining

  • Authors:
  • Grazia Bombini;Raquel Ros;Stefano Ferilli;Ramon López De Mántaras

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Department of Computer Science, Bari, Italy;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, UK;University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Department of Computer Science, Bari, Italy;IIIA, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Bellaterra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Foundations of intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper outlines the use of a relational representation in a Multi-Agent domain to model the behaviour of the whole system. The aim of this work is to define a general systematic method to verify the effective collaboration among the members of a team and to compare the different multi-agent behaviours, using external observations of a Multi-Agent System. Observing and analysing the behavior of a such system is a difficult task. Our approach allows to learn sequential behaviours from raw multi-agent observations of a dynamic, complex environment, represented by a set of sequences expressed in first-order logic. In order to discover the underlying knowledge to characterise team behaviours, we propose to use a relational learning algorithm to mine meaningful frequent patterns among the relational sequences. We compared the performance of two soccer teams in a simulated environment, each based on very different behavioural approaches: While one uses a more deliberative strategy, the other one uses a pure reactive one.