Controlling physical multiagent teams; getting league independent results from RoboCup Soccer.

9781586037055

Controlling physical multiagent teams; getting league independent results from RoboCup Soccer.

Obst, Oliver.

IOS Press

2007

193 pages

$63.00

Paperback

DISKI; 304

TJ211

In multiagent systems, autonomous entities must cooperatively solve a problem. In the case of robotic soccer, the problem is how to make a team of autonomous entities win against another team. What may appear to be a game is actually a challenging research field, and Obst became a major force in that field in his time as a Ph.D. student in artificial intelligence at the U. of Koblenz. This, his dissertation, includes significant work in creating tools and techniques to create physical multiagent systems in domains where each agent has insufficient resources and capabilities to solve the problem alone. He also addresses solutions that are dependent on the specifications peculiar to the league or independent of them. The result is a model of multiagent systems useful to a variety of applications ranging from commercial software to urban planning, social science or the military.

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