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Transparent Multi-Robot Communication Exchange for Executing Robot Behaviors

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Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 156))

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Service robots are quickly integrating into our society to help people, but how could robots help other robots? The main contribution of this work is a software module that allows a robot to transparently include behaviors that are performed by other robots into its own set of behaviors. The proposed solution addresses issues related to communication and opacity of behavior distribution among team members. This location transparency allows the execution of a behavior without knowing where is located. To apply our approach, a multi-robot distributed receptionist application was developed using robots that were not originally designed to cooperate among themselves.

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  1. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Camino Molino, 28943, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Agüero

  2. Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Manuela Veloso

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  1. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  2. , Facultad de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Miguel A. Sánchez

  3. Technologies de Lille, LIFL UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et, Bâtiment M3 (extension), Villeneuve d’Ascq, 59655, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  4. Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  5. , LAMIH (UMR CNRS 8530), Universite de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, Valenciennes, 59313, France

    Emmanuel Adam

  6. , Departamento de Ingeniería, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain

    Alfonso Ortega

  7. Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

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  8. , Departamento de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

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  9. EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, Utd.Arab.Emir.

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  10. , Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal

    Henrique Lopes-Cardoso

  11. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain

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Agüero, C., Veloso, M. (2012). Transparent Multi-Robot Communication Exchange for Executing Robot Behaviors. In: Pérez, J., et al. Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_26

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