Riga Technical UniversityDepartment of System Theory and Design

Usage of Multi-Agent Paradigm in Multi-Robot Systems Integration

Assistant professor

Egons Lavendelis

egons.lavendelis@rtu.lv

Riga, Latvia

Multi-agent systems & Robotics research

• Robotics research:• Multi-agent system based multi-robot system technology

enabling the widely available stand alone robots to cooperatively accomplish large tasks

• Wide experience in mobile robotics, including, highly mobile robotic platforms, their motion schema, general AI techniques and machine learning based control, high precision positioning sensors for laboratory use

• Multi-agent research: • Agent oriented software engineering

methodology MASITS and CASE tool • Practical multi-agent system applications • Multi-agent architectures, interaction protocols

• Ontologies and their usage2

The project idea

• Hard to integrate heterogeneous robotic systems and lack of reliable development frameworks

• The general idea is to bring semantics based communications into embedded multi-robot control systems to enable automatic collaboration, teaming decision making as well as data and knowledge sharing among autonomous robotic systems

• The aim of the project is to develop hardware and software solution turning regular mobile robotic systems into smart collaborative devices

Plug&Play robotic devices

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Multi-agent approach

• Idea: to use multi-agent paradigm as a core technique for developing multi-robot system management software

• The main role of agents at the management level is to represent robotic systems (physical agents)

• Increases effectiveness of multi robot system management by – Tailoring heterogeneity and complexity of physical entities

– Modelling of future operation scenarios

– Behaviour optimization of the system

– Higher usability from end-user view point

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Our vision

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Thank you for your attention!

Feel free to contact me about any projects related to our research areas!

egons.lavendelis@rtu.lv