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Robotic soccer remains an area of active research owing to the difficulties of dynamic team formation and hard real time constraints regarding planning. Much of the existing research relies upon a central agency for coordination. Insect societies distribute work and allocate roles without a need for such a central agency and are robust with respect to changing environments and available agent resources. This paper explores the use of insect-inspired division of labour principles to robot soccer, highlighting the flexibility of the approach and ability to adapt to a wide range of soccer playing strategies.
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White, T., Helferty, J. (2005). Emergent Team Formation: Applying Division of Labour Principles to Robot Soccer. In: Brueckner, S.A., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Karageorgos, A., Nagpal, R. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494676_12
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