ALLIANCE: an architecture for fault tolerant multirobot cooperation

Parker, Lynne E.

doi:10.1109/70.681242

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“…The parallel drawn with social societies in the animal world extends to communication interactions between the robots can be indirect as well as direct. Fault-tolerance, which is related to security, has already been extensively researched within the context of multi-robot systems with hierarchical command and control, notably in the work of Parkers ALLIANCE control architecture [6].…”

Section: Multi-robot Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey on Security Challenges for Swarm Robotics

Higgins

Tomlinson

Martin

2009

2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

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Swarm robotics is a relatively new technology that is being explored for its potential use in a variety of different applications and environments. Previous emerging technologies have often overlooked security until later developmental stages, when it has had to be undesirably (and sometimes expensively) retrofitted. We identify a number of security challenges for swarm robotics and argue that now is the right time to address these issues and seek solutions. We also identify several idiosyncrasies of swarm robotics that present some unique security challenges. In particular, swarms of robots potentially employ different types of communication channels; have special concepts of identity; and exhibit adaptive emergent behaviour which could be modified by an intruder. Addressing these issues now will prevent undesirable consequences for many applications of this type of technology.

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Section: Multi-robot Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey on Security Challenges for Swarm Robotics

Higgins

Tomlinson

Martin

2009

2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

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“…For instance, in Balch and Arkin (1994), the authors make use of a schema-based controller and limited communication to show that the robots carry out successfully all of their different foraging tasks proposed in an office-like environment. Parker (1998) implemented a reactive architecture for a waste cleanup task. Her work is based on a fully distributed behavior-based architecture that incorporates the use of impatience and acquiescence concepts, which allow each robot to achieve adaptive action selection.…”

Section: Foraging In Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective decision-making based on social odometry

Gutiérrez

Campo

Monasterio-Huelin

et al. 2010

Neural Comput & Applic

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In this paper, we propose a swarm intelligence localization strategy in which robots have to locate different resource areas in a bounded arena and forage between them. The robots have no knowledge of the arena dimensions and of the number of resource areas. The strategy is based on peer-to-peer local communication without the need for any central unit. Social Odometry leads to a self-organized path selection. We show how collective decisions lead the robots to choose the closest resource site from a central place. Results are presented with simulated and real robots.

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“…The ALLIANCE architecture for fault tolerant multi-robot cooperation was a behavior-based system with mathematically modeled motivations within each robot (Parker, 1998). Each robot had a set of behaviors from which one was dynamically selected, based on how the environment and the other agents in the system changed.…”

Section: Gerkey and Matarićmentioning

confidence: 99%