Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata

Barfoot, Tim D.; D&apos;Eleuterio, Gabriele M. T.

Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata

Tim D. Barfoot, Gabriele M. T. D'Eleuterio

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Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1037-1041.

Abstract

A coordination mechanism for a system of sparsely communicating agents is described. The mechanism is based on a stochastic version of cellular automata. A parameter similar to a temperature can be tuned to change the behaviour of the system. It is found that the best coordination occurs near a phase transition between order and chaos. Coordination does not rely on any particular structure of the connections between agents, thus it may be applicable to a large array of sparsely communicating mobile robots.

Tim D. Barfoot, and Gabriele M. T. D'Eleuterio. 2001. Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-01. IJCAI, 1037–1041. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/140

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