Multi-agent based implementation of robot skills

This paper proposes a multi-agent based implementation of robot skills. As an example, a skill motion for assembly tasks, "move-to-touch", has been implemented on a multi-agent robot control system developed on a transputer network. The skill motion is constructed as an integration of several agents, a motion control agent, event detection agents and a management agent. Our implementation has achieved high flexibility, reliability and extensibility of the skill control system.