Extending the Kouretes Statechart Editor for Generic Agent Behavior Development

Abstract

Part 5: Agents (AGE)International audienceThe development of high-level behavior for autonomous robots is a time-consuming task even for experts. The Kouretes Statechart Editor (KSE) is a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool, which allows to easily specify a desired robot behavior as a statechart model utilizing a variety of base robot functionalities (vision, localization, locomotion, motion skills, communication) for the Monas robotic software architecture framework. This paper presents an extension to KSE, which allows defining generic agent behaviors using automatic framework-independent code generation, as long as the underlying framework is written in C++. This way a user can program physical (robots) or software agents that can be executed on any platform using any compatible software framework. This paper demonstrates the transparent use of the extended KSE in the SimSpark 3D soccer simulation and the Wumpus world

Engineering Multi-agent Systems with Statecharts

“…safety critical mechatronic systems [29], project management and quality assurance [79], a system integrating IoT (Internet of Things) devices to a MAS-based manufacturing environment [62], simulation, e.g. robotic soccer [61], social simulation [75], playing the wumpus game [68], remote monitoring and health care [1,88]. Table 3 tries to provide a view of the examined applications with respect to the models used for design.…”