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Cooperative and Competitive Behaviors in a Multi-robot System for Surveillance Tasks

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In this paper we present a control architecture for multi-robot systems in dynamic environments, where the low level behaviors are obtained through artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms to achieve collaborative behaviors in a multi-robot system. As an example, we have cooperative tasks establishing a surveillance scenario stressing cooperation and competition between them.

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Quiñonez, Y., de Lope, J., Maravall, D. (2009). Cooperative and Competitive Behaviors in a Multi-robot System for Surveillance Tasks. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009. EUROCAST 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04772-5_57

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