Autonomous Agents in Dynamic Environment: A Necessary Volatility of the Knowledge

Emmanuel Adam (1) , Emmanuelle Grislin-Le Strugeon (1) , René Mandiau (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

Completely autonomous vehicles should allow to decrease greatly the number of accident victims, and should allow gains in terms of performance and economy. Interactions among the different vehicles allowing them to choose the best path, the best behaviour is one of the main challenges. We propose in this paper a model of volatile knowledge dedicated to mobile agents on a traffic network. This model of knowledge and the principles of interactions allow to propagate new knowledge with a limited number of messages. For that, a degradation coefficient of the knowledge is proposed. The principles have been validated by a simulation with software agents, and by a real application on mobile robots acting like autonomous vehicles.

Mots clés: "Mobile Robot"; "Dynamic Environment"; "Mobile Agent"; "Autonomous Agent"; "Speed Limit"

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Emmanuel Adam, Emmanuelle Grislin-Le Strugeon, René Mandiau. Autonomous Agents in Dynamic Environment: A Necessary Volatility of the Knowledge. Trends in Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection, 293, Springer International Publishing, pp.103-110, 2014, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-07476-4_13⟩. ⟨hal-03470325⟩