Abstract
This paper presents a deadlock-free cooperation protocol for an object-sorting task in a multi-agent system. First, the object-sorting task in a distributed robotic system is introduced and a cooperation protocol for the task along with the agent architecture is proposed. The agents are based on a homogeneous agent architecture that consists of search, motion, and communication modules coordinated through a global state. Second, the deadlock problem for the object-sorting task is addressed and several deadlock-handling strategies are provided to guarantee the cooperation protocol is deadlock-free.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2580-2585 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Part 1 (of 3) - Nagoya, Jpn Duration: 21 05 1995 → 27 05 1995 |