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A open issue in multi-robots systems is coordinating the collaboration between several agents to obtain a common goal. The most popular solutions use complex systems, several types of sensors and complicated controls systems. This paper describes a general approach for coordinating the movement of objects by using reinforcement learning. Thus, the method proposes a framework in which two robots are able to work together in order to achieve a common goal. We use simple robots without any kind of internal sensors and they only obtain information from a central camera. The main objective of this paper is to define and to verify a method based on reinforcement learning for multi-robot systems, which learn to coordinate their actions for achieving common goal.
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Pereda, J., Martín-Ortiz, M., de Lope, J., de la Paz, F. (2011). Study of a Multi-Robot Collaborative Task through Reinforcement Learning. In: Ferrández, J.M., Álvarez Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz, F., Toledo, F.J. (eds) Foundations on Natural and Artificial Computation. IWINAC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21344-1_20
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