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In this paper the automatic design of behaviors for a swarm of robots is explored. In order to build behaviors for robots automatically a computational platform is proposed. The proposed platform is composed by three major components. The first component is a description format which allows to specify robot properties, basic behaviors and tasks. The second component is a genetic programming implementation along with a physics-based simulator, this component builds in an automatic way expression trees which represent robot behaviors. The final component is a behaviors allocation module to assign expression trees to real robots. The proposed computational platform is deployed in a experimental manufacturing cell.
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Chavez, J., Gómez, J., Córdoba, E. (2019). Coordination Platform for a Swarm of Mobile Robots. In: De La Prieta, F., Omatu, S., Fernández-Caballero, A. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 15th International Conference. DCAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 800. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94649-8_28
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