Research of communication mechanism of multi-agent robot systems

Abstract

The cooperation of a multi-robot system that is based on the multi-agent system (MAS) theory of distributed artificial intelligence has become a hotspot in robotics R&D. In the research, the communication and cooperation of multi-agents become the key problem for gaining the dynamic running information of cooperating robots. We introduce the communication modes for agents and provide a common strategy (which aims at the communication resources of a multi-agent model)-the CSMA/CD (carrier sense multiple access with collision detection) protocol which is based on the transmission medium. It supports cable-communication of multi-robot systems and experiments prove its validity.