Summary: A paradigm for plan­merging and its use for Multi­robot Cooperation
Rachid ALAMI, Fr'ed'eric ROBERT, F'elix INGRAND, Sho'ji SUZUKI
LAAS / CNRS
7, Avenue du Colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse ­ France
Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for
multi­robot cooperation. It is based on a paradigm
where robots incrementally merge their plans into a
set of already coordinated plans. This is done through
exchange of information about their current state and
their future actions. This leads to a generic frame­
work which can be applied to a variety of tasks and
applications.
1 Introduction
We present, in this paper, an approach we have re­
cently developed for multi­robot cooperation. It is
based on a paradigm, called Plan­Merging Paradigm,
where robots incrementally merge their plans into a
set of already coordinated plans. This is done through
exchange of information about their current state and

Source: Alami, Rachid - Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes du CNRS

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