ALLIANCE architecture

In addition, Parker (1998) designed a software architecture called ALLIANCE based on a fully distributed behavior. The ALLIANCE architecture allows mobile robots to individually determine the appropriate actions to perform. To accomplish this, the ALLIANCE architecture uses two mathematically modeled motivations impatience and acquiescence motivations. Using the impatience characteristic, some robots can examine situations when other robots fail to accomplish their tasks. The acquiescence characteristic lets the robot examine the situation when it fails to accomplish its own task. In addition, the ALLIANCE architecture allows robots to handle abrupt environmental changes robustly, reliably, coherently and flexibly, including the addition of new mobile robots or the failure of others. 

An example of a horizontally stmctured robot collective is the ALLIANCE architecture presented by Paiker (1998). In that framewoik, the robots autonomously coordinated their actions by being allocated motivation level for each of the many predefined subtasks necessary to achieve a global goal. Each robot s motivation to perform... 

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Parker, L. E. (1998). ALLIANCE An architecture for fault-tolerant multi-robot cooperation. [IEEE... 

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