A Multiagent Approach to Qualitative Landmark-Based Navigation

Authors:
Dídac Busquets;Carles Sierra;Ramon López De Màntaras
Affiliations:
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. didac@iiia.csic.es;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. sierra@iiia.csic.es;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. mantaras@iiia.csic.es
Venue:
Autonomous Robots
Year:
2003

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Abstract

In this paper we present a multiagent system for landmark-based navigation in unknown environments. We propose a bidding mechanism to coordinate the actions requested by the different agents. The navigation system has been tested on a real robot on indoor unstructured environments.