Robot swarm MANET cooperation based on mobile agent

Abstract

MANET is pervasive for the communication of a group of mobile robot or robot swarm. To facilitate the cooperation between mobile robots which fulfill a complicated task or monitor an area, MANET cooperation based on mobile agent is presented in this paper. For decreasing the overhead of communication, robot swarm MANET is clustered. Mobile agents (MAs) move around the cluster heads of the network and exchange service robot information with arrived cluster head. Robot which takes the role of cluster member only communicates with its cluster head robot for information of other robot. A fire-fighting robot swarm MANET is simulated and the cooperation between fire-fighting robots is optimized. Simulating results indicate that cooperation based on mobile agent provides an efficient framework for robot swarm cooperation and optimization. © 2009 IEEE.