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Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents

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Approaches to Intelligence Agents (PRIMA 1999)

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A Distributed Vision System (DVS) is an infrastructure for mobile robot navigation. The system consists of vision agents embedded in an environment and connected with a computer network, observes events in the environment, and provides various information to robots. We have developed a prototype of the DVS which consists of sixteen vision agents and simultaneously navigates two robots. This paper describes the detail of the prototype system, shows the robustness through experimentation, and considers problems in applying a multi-agent system to a real robot system through development of the DVS.

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Takushi Sogo, Hiroshi Ishiguro & Toru Ishida

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  1. Takushi Sogo
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  1. Electrotechnical Laboratories, Umezono 1-1-4, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0045, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakashima

  2. Deakin University Geelong, Scool of Computing and Mathematics, Victoria 3217, Australia

    Chengqi Zhang

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Sogo, T., Ishiguro, H., Ishida, T. (1999). Mobile Robot Navigation by Distributed Vision Agents. In: Nakashima, H., Zhang, C. (eds) Approaches to Intelligence Agents. PRIMA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46693-2_8

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