Localizing and Tracking with a Reactive Multi-Agent System

  • Authors:
  • Franck Gechter;Vincent Chevrier;Francois Charpillet

  • Affiliations:
  • UHP-Nancy 1 and LORIA UMR;UHP-Nancy 1 and LORIA UMR;INRIA, LORIA UMR

  • Venue:
  • AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Localizing and Tracking an object, with both mobile or static sensors, is a complex but essential task when we want to use moving robots in a structured and uncertain environment. We propose in this paper a swarm approach for addressing this issue using an interaction paradigm inspired from Physics. The combination of different interactions results in a self-organised process that builds patterns interpreted as solutions of the problem. After a description of the model, this paper analyses the properties and the performance of our device through various experiments. In particular, a comparison with the standard Kalman filtering method demonstrates the relevancy of our approach.