DCP-MASR: A Dynamic Communication Protocol for Robot-Based Multi-agent Systems

The Multi-Agent System technology focuses mainly on four topics: cooperation and coordination, organization, communication, and negotiation of a set of intelligent software agents. Applying these techniques to a flock of robots is difficult due to restricted computational resources of the robots. Moreover, if the robots are mobile, the communication is wireless, and there are competing groups, then a dynamic protocol is needed to realize coordination tasks. The paper proposes a dynamic communication protocol which is capable of providing flexible, fast and fault tolerant communication for robot-based Multi-Agent Systems even in flawed communication environments.