Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata

Abstract

A coordination mechanism for a system of sparsely communicating agents is described. The mechanism is based on a stochastic version of cellular automata. A parameter similar to a temperature can be tuned to change the behaviour of the system. It is found that the best coordination occurs near a phase transition between order and chaos. Coordination does not rely on any particular structure of the connections between agents, thus it may be applicable to a large array of sparsely communicating mobile robots.

Cite

Text

Barfoot and D'Eleuterio. "Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.

Markdown

[Barfoot and D'Eleuterio. "Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/barfoot2001ijcai-multiagent/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{barfoot2001ijcai-multiagent,
  title     = {{Multiagent Coordination by Stochastic Cellular Automata}},
  author    = {Barfoot, Tim D. and D'Eleuterio, Gabriele M. T.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2001},
  pages     = {1037-1042},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2001/barfoot2001ijcai-multiagent/}
}