Suppressing Energy Consumption of Transportation Robots using Mobile Agents

Ryosuke Shibuya, Munehiro Takimoto, Yasushi Kambayashi

2013

Abstract

This paper presents an application for controlling multiple robots connected by communication networks. Instead of making multiple robots pursue several tasks simultaneously, the framework makes mobile software agents migrate from one robot to another to perform the tasks. Since mobile software agents can migrate to arbitrary robots by wireless communication networks, they can find the most suitably equipped and/or the most suitably located robots to perform their task. We previously implemented an application of searching targets in our framework, and showed that it could suppress energy consumption of the entire system. In this paper, we propose a new mobile agent system that transports the found targets to a collection area. The approach is based on passing the targets among robots through throwing, and therefore, suppresses energy consumption as the same manner for searching targets. In order to show the effectiveness of our approach, we have implemented two strategies on a simulator and conducted numerical experiments. As a result, we show that our approach has more advantages than previous ones, and there is a remarkable difference between the two strategies in terms of energy saving.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Shibuya R., Takimoto M. and Kambayashi Y. (2013). Suppressing Energy Consumption of Transportation Robots using Mobile Agents . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 219-224. DOI: 10.5220/0004240902190224

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Ryosuke Shibuya and Munehiro Takimoto and Yasushi Kambayashi},
title={Suppressing Energy Consumption of Transportation Robots using Mobile Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={219-224},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004240902190224},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Suppressing Energy Consumption of Transportation Robots using Mobile Agents
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Shibuya R.
AU - Takimoto M.
AU - Kambayashi Y.
PY - 2013
SP - 219
EP - 224
DO - 10.5220/0004240902190224