Article in Proceedings INPROC-2010-117

BibliographyZweigle, Oliver; Käppeler, Uwe-Philipp; Häußermann, Kai; Levi, Paul: Event Based Distributed Real-time Communication Architecture for Multi-Agent Systems.
In: The ICCIT 2010 International Conference Proceedings.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology; 5, pp. 503-510, english.
Seoul: IEEE, November 30, 2010.
ISBN: 978-89-88678-29-9.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaI.2.9 (Robotics)
Keywordscommunication; network; robotics; robot; udp; tcp; robocup
Abstract

In this paper an event-based distributed real-time communication architecture for multi-agent systems is presented. The architecture was designed regarding the needs of hardware-based multi-agent systems, especially robotic systems. This includes in particular fast and reliable transportation of messages in unstable wireless networks. Furthermore the architecture is usable for different agent-based software systems and allows communication between different systems even if they have a complete different representation of internal data. The architecture was evaluated in the RoboCup scenario with a multi-agent system of 5 robots interacting in a highly dynamic environment. Using this system, the RoboCup team of the University of Stuttgart won the RoboCup German Open Championship and World Championship in 2009.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Image Understanding
Entry dateJanuary 10, 2011
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