Can Emil help Pippi
Robert Lundh, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffiotti · 2005
Abstract — This work is about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) planning techniques to automatically configure a group of cooperating robots. In particular, we study societies of autonomous robotic systems in which robots can help each other by offering information-producing resources and functionalities. A configuration in our societies is a way to allocate and connect functionalities among robots. In general, different configurations can be used to solve the same task, depending on the current situation. In this paper, we show a general approach to define, generate, and execute configurations. We use knowledge-based planning to automatically generate a configuration for a given task, environment, and set of resources. We describe an experi-mental system where these ideas are implemented, and show an example of it in which two robots mutually help each other to cross a door.