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A Study of Communication Emergence among Mobile Robots : Simulations of Intention Transmission

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Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5

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Purpose of this study is to realize communication emergence among multiple robots. An important role of communication in multi-agent system is to make it possible to control the other agents based on intention transmission. We consider that multiple robots system can be more and more adaptable by treating communication as one of behavior. We discuss the method of how the robots can learn appropriate actions including communication to adapt the environment without giving communication manner. In this paper, we attempt computer simulations of collision avoidance as an example of cooperative task and discuss the results.

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  1. Advanced Engineering Center, RIKEN, 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Kuniaki Kawabata & Hajime Asama

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Toyo University, 2100, Kuj irai, Kawagoe, Saitama, 350-8585, Japan

    Masayuki Tanaka

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  1. Advanced Engineering Center, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, 351-0198, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

    Hajime Asama (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division) (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division)

  2. Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, The Unviersity of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-8656, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamio Arai (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Micro System Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8603, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

    Toshio Fukuda (Professor) (Professor)

  4. Department of Intelligent Systems Graduate School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, 812-8581, Higaschi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tsutomu Hasegawa (Professor) (Professor)

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Kawabata, K., Asama, H., Tanaka, M. (2002). A Study of Communication Emergence among Mobile Robots : Simulations of Intention Transmission. In: Asama, H., Arai, T., Fukuda, T., Hasegawa, T. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65941-9_8

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