Basic cycles, utility and opportunism in self-sufficient robots

McFarland, David; Spier, Emmet

doi:10.1016/s0921-8890(96)00069-3

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“…This solution is very attractive for marine and underwater robots, since there are already several successful examples of MFC use in marine environments [10,87]. Depending on the executed tasks, for such types of robots, "sleep mode" proposed by D. McFarland [27] and applied in Gastrobot [9] and Ecobot robot series [30] can be used, when the robot is inactive and charges its battery using BFC. In general, expanding the range of applications of marine and underwater autonomous mobile robots can be accompanied with a more active use of MFC.…”

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“…The development of robots' recharging terminals and robot behavior algorithms that include searching of such terminals and planning its work in a periodic charging operation mode [24,25], finding correct charging time, fuel amount needed for each working cycle, correct behavior strategy for robot depend of power source characteristics and requires theoretical research and modeling [26]. Optimal working cycles with refueling or recharging, searching for energy sources was investigated by D. Mcfarland [27]. 2.…”

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Bioenergy Based Power Sources for Mobile Autonomous Robots

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This paper presents the problem of application of modern developments in the field of bio-energy for the development of autonomous mobile robots' power sources. We carried out analysis of biofuel cells, gasification and pyrolysis of biomass. Nowadays, very few technologies in the bioenergy field are conducted with regards to the demands brought by robotics. At the same time, a number of technologies, such as biofuel cells, have now already come into use as a power supply for experimental autonomous mobile robots. The general directions for research that may help to increase the efficiency of power energy sources described in the article, in case of their use in robotics, are also presented.

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Bioenergy Based Power Sources for Mobile Autonomous Robots

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“…However, since cheating agents do not have any particular will to cheat (it is as though their emitters were defective), there is no second social force (the only force present is the sweeping force) and so there is no need for compromise and sociality regulation. To show the need for sociality regulation, it would be necessary to modify the social problem so as to include a second social force, for example by defining two agent types, one that would seek to sweep the place and one that would seek to litter, or by introducing an additional social behavior such as resource sharing (as in Steels (1995) and McFarland and Spier (1997)). As the problem is formulated, there is no need for sociality regulation, because there is no free task parameter intervening in sociality.…”

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Regulation Problems in Explorer Agents

Tzafestas

2005

Cybernetics and Systems

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In the present study, we investigate and analyze the behavior of explorer agents. We perform a number of experiments with single and multiple agents and we obtain a number of corresponding results. First, we decouple the agent's functional=motivational system from its cognitive=representational system and show that intricate regulation is necessary to achieve effective and efficient behavior. In the multiple agents case, we extend the single agent behavioral model with a form of sociality selected from a progression of alternatives designed and evaluated. We also show how the general regulation perspective allows for design and analysis of explorer systems. We do not miss to provide variations of the problem and potential applications all along the way. INTRODUCTIONExploration is a typical problem encountered in the behavior-based robotics literature and owes its name and formulation to one of the very first projects in behavior-based robotics that aimed-somewhat futuristically-at the exploration of Mars (Angle and Brooks 1990): a set of robotic agents lands on a planet with the mission to explore its surface for samples of minerals having certain properties. The robots arrive in a spaceship that serves as the planetary base in the course of the mission. The mission is accomplished when the whole surface contained within a certain distance from the base is explored. We ought to note that this exploration problem is described as a sampling one, where the agents have to pick some mineral samples from the sources of interest. However, in practice, in the corresponding literature, the problem is tackled as a sweeping one, where the agents have to exhaust the sources of interest (cf. for instance Brooks and Flynn (1989), Beckers et al. (1994)). In both cases, it is a field coverage problem: the termination criterion is that all the assumed surface should be explored. In the same course of ideas as the researchers in behavior-based robotics, we have adopted the sweeping variant that lends itself to a more worldly instantiation: let us imagine a set of robotic agents thrown in a garage, a subway station, or another delimited area, with the mission to clean away all objects of a given type, usually litter, such as empty soda cans, nylon bags etc. The agents are supposed to return to their base once their mission is accomplished: the subway-cleaner robots are going to wake up and enter in activity outside operation hours, for instance at night, and return to their base definitely once they have cleaned everything, before the reopening of the station. With respect to sampling, sweeping appears therefore a more primitive problem, since it assumes the same functionality for navigation, detection and localization, but without necessitating a sophisticated spatial reasoning: in the case of sampling, the robot has to remember, in a way or another, all the sources of mineral that it has already explored, so as to avoid visiting them again, while in the sweeping case, the fact that a mineral source has been visited does not have...

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“…It is well known that energetic issues, in particular that of energetic self-sufficiency, are already being tackled in the cases of robots and other types of mobile systems (see, e.g., [2]) .…”

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Energy Systems in Material Agent Societies

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2017

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Resumo: Este artigo concerne sociedades de agentes materiais, quer dizer, sociedades de agentes habitadas por agentes materiais. O artigo introduz o conceito de sistema de energia de uma sociedade de agentes materiais, caracterizando-o como o sub-sistema organizational da sociedade que é responsável pela coordenação da produção, distribuição e consumo de energia naquela sociedade. Dois modelos (um baseado em labor, outro baseado em trabalho) de sistemas de energia são formulados, juntamente com as condições necessárias para seu funcionamento equilibrado. Os conceito de sociedade de agentes materiais energeticamente autossuficiente e energeticamente autônoma são formalmente definidos. Uma possível relação entre os sistemas econô-mico e político e os sistemas de energia de sociedades de agentes materiais é indicada.Abstract: This paper concerns material agent societies, that is, agent societies inhabited by material agents. The paper introduces the concept of energy system of a material agent society, characterizing it as the organizational sub-system of the society that is responsible for the coordination of the production, distribution and consumption of energy in that society. Two models (labor-based and work-based) for energy systems are formulated, together with the necessary conditions for their equilibrated functioning. The concepts of energy self-sufficient and energy autonomous material agent society are defined. The possible relation between the economic and political systems, and the energy systems of material agent societies, is indicated.Palavras-chave: Sociedades de agentes, agentes nateriais, sistemas de energia, labor, trabalho.

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Basic cycles, utility and opportunism in self-sufficient robots

Cited by 58 publications

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Bioenergy Based Power Sources for Mobile Autonomous Robots

Bioenergy Based Power Sources for Mobile Autonomous Robots

Regulation Problems in Explorer Agents

Energy Systems in Material Agent Societies

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