Anticipation as a key for collaboration in a team of agents: a case study in robotic soccer

Manuela M. Veloso; Peter Stone; Michael Bowling

doi:10.1117/12.360333

26 August 1999 Anticipation as a key for collaboration in a team of agents: a case study in robotic soccer

Manuela M. Veloso, Peter Stone, Michael Bowling

Proceedings Volume 3839, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.360333
Event: Photonics East '99, 1999, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

We investigate teams of compete autonomous agents that can collaborate towards achieving precise objectives in an adversarial dynamic environment. We have pursued these two frameworks emphasizing their different technical challenges. Creating effective members of a team is a challenging research problem. We first address this issue by introducing a team architecture organization which allows for a rich task decomposition between team members. The main contribution of this paper is our introduction of an action- selection algorithm that allows for a teammate to anticipate the needs of other teammates. Anticipation is critical for maximizing the probability of successful collaboration in teams of agents. We show how our contribution applies to the two concrete robotic soccer frameworks and present controlled empirical result run in simulation. Anticipation was successfully used by both our CMUnited-98 simulator and CMUnited-98 small-robot teams in the RoboCup-98 competition. The two teams are RoboCup-98 world champions each in its own league.

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Manuela M. Veloso, Peter Stone, and Michael Bowling "Anticipation as a key for collaboration in a team of agents: a case study in robotic soccer", Proc. SPIE 3839, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II, (26 August 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.360333

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