Comparison of different coordination strategies for the RoboCupRescue simulation

Authors:
Sébastien Paquet;Nicolas Bernier;Brahim Chaib-draa
Affiliations:
DAMAS Laboratory Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Laval University, Québec, Canada;DAMAS Laboratory Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Laval University, Québec, Canada;DAMAS Laboratory Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Venue:
IEA/AIE'2004 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Innovations in applied artificial intelligence
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A fundamental difficulty faced by cooperative multiagent systems is to find how to efficiently coordinate agents. There are three fundamental processes to solve the coordination problem: mutual adjustment, direct supervision and standardization. In this paper, we present our results, obtained in the RoboCupRescue environment, comparing those coordination approaches to find which one is the best for a complex real-time problem like this one. Our results show that a decentralized approach based on mutual adjustment can be more flexible and give better results than a centralized approach using direct supervision. Also, we have obtained results showing that a standardization rule like the partitioning of the map can be helpful in those kind of environments.