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Efficient Auction Based Coordination for Distributed Multi-agent Planning in Temporal Domains Using Resource Abstraction

verfasst von : Andreas Hertle, Bernhard Nebel

Erschienen in: KI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Recent advances in mobile robotics and AI promise to revolutionize industrial production. As autonomous robots are able to solve more complex tasks, the difficulty of integrating various robot skills and coordinating groups of robots increases dramatically. Domain independent planning promises a possible solution. For single robot systems a number of successful demonstrations can be found in scientific literature. However our experiences at the RoboCup Logistics League in 2017 highlighted a severe lack in plan quality when coordinating multiple robots. In this work we demonstrate how out of the box temporal planning systems can be employed to increase plan quality for temporal multi-robot tasks. An abstract plan is generated first and sub-tasks in the plan are auctioned off to robots, which in turn employ planning to solve these tasks and compute bids. We evaluate our approach on two planning domains and find significant improvements in solution coverage and plan quality.

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Metadaten
Titel
Efficient Auction Based Coordination for Distributed Multi-agent Planning in Temporal Domains Using Resource Abstraction
verfasst von
Andreas Hertle
Bernhard Nebel
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00111-7_8

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