Local Versus Global Control Laws for Cooperative Agent Teams

Abstract

The design of the control laws governing the behavior of individual agents is crucial for the successful development of cooperative agent teams. These control laws may utilize a combination of local and/or global knowledge to achieve the resulting group behavior. A key difficulty in this development is deciding the proper balance between local and global control required to achieve the desired emergent group behavior. This paper addresses this issue by presenting some general guidelines and principles for determining the appropriate level of global versus local control. These principles are illustrated and implemented in a 'keep formation' cooperative task case study, which presents several alternative control strategies along the local versus global spectrum.... Cooperative, Keeping formation, Behavior, Control laws, Agent.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259338

Entities

People

  • Lynne E. Parker

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Case Studies
  • Communication Channels
  • Cooperation
  • Cooperative Control
  • Dynamics
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Robots
  • Side Effects
  • Simulations

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