A Situated Contract Net Protocol Realization in Command and Control
Jiaqi Kang, Shuangyin Ren, Chunjiang Wang · 2022
Contract net protocol is utilized for task assignment and distribution in command and control system. Basic contract net protocol and most enhanced versions are not as intelligent as needed in multi-agent system. From the point view of embodied cognition, situation awareness is critical for system intelligence. This proposal realized a situated contract net protocol where a situation factor is introduced to represent the impact of situated environment on agent task execution. Contract net protocol bidding policy is redesigned based on situation factor, cost function and task benefit function. Experimental results show that communication cost is reduced and mission success rate is improved.