Multi-Welfare-Robot Cooperation Framework for Multi-Task Assignment in Healthcare Facilities Based on Multi-Agent System

Abstract

With the large-scale application of intelligent service robots in health care facilities, the scheduling and planning problem of multiple heterogeneous robots is focused. Therefore, multi-welfare-robot cooperation framework for multi-task assignment in healthcare facilities based on multi-agent system is proposed. This framework adopts the structure of distributed and centralized multi-agent system to realize task assignment and robot scheduling in healthcare facilities. Heterogeneous multi-agent systems allocate tasks through contract network based on market mechanism. Agents' situation awareness when task appears, the individual situation of the elderly and task characteristics are the essential information for agents to calculate bid value. The framework can get an optimal task assignment by distributed consensus between agents.