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In this paper, we introduce an approach for designing and deploying organizations on large scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. Lying on the well-known organizational meta-model AGR, we propose a role assignment protocol for automatically distributing the roles over the robots. We have run a series of simulations to validate the approach’s feasibility. The simulations show that the protocol is well scalable as well.
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Le, V.T., Stinckwich, S., Noury, B., Doniec, A. (2010). Dynamic Role Assignment for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. In: Bai, Q., Fukuta, N. (eds) Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16098-1_19
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