Task Description, Decomposition, and Allocation in a Distributed Autonomous Multi-Agent Robot System

In this paper a new intelligent control architecture for autonomous multi-robot systems is presented. Furthermore, the paper deals with task description, task distribution, task allocation and coordination of the system components. The main advantage of the new control architecture is the distributed execution of tasks or subtasks by components of the multi-robot system. The components are able to build teams dynamically thereby avoiding the bottle neck problem of the information flow in centralized controlled architectures. To achieve to distributed organized control architectures, the detailed investigation of communication and cooperation between components is imperative. The described intelligent control architecture is to replace the former control architecture of the autonomous robot KAMRO. 1. Introduction During the past few years, the need for large scale and complex systems has become obvious. They are necessary to intelligently carry out tasks in the area of transportation,..