An essential task for autonomous mobile robot is to move from places to places while avoiding obstacles and keep itself located. In a dynamically changing environment this requires the utilization of diverse sensor information. For mobile robots equipped with multiple sensors, diierent types of sensor and sensor conngurations provide competing and complementing functions for the above purposes....

The multi-agent systems community has made great strides investigating issues such as coordination and negotiation. When addressing human or human-agent behavior, very few approaches have addressed a feature that people are embodied in the real-world and act in geospatial environments. In the past, it has been difficult to perform experiments and collect data for such domains. However, with the...

Mobile app development occurs in a highly competitive, and fast-moving environment. Small teams or even individual developers build apps that can be very successful, sometimes literally over night. Many of these successful apps are driven by backend services that are either interfaces to established web applications or that exist just for the purpose to serve the mobile apps. We discuss our exp...

Research on the co-ordination of multiple mobile robots has to address three main problems: (i) how to appropriately divide the functionality of the system into multiple robots, (ii) how to manage the dynamic configuration of the system, and (iii) how to realise co-operation behaviour. This paper will concentrate on the third aspect. More specifically, the aim of our research is to develop a te...

Mobile adhoc networks (MANETs) are ideal for situations where a fixed infrastructure is unavailable or infeasible. This limitation makes MANETs unsuitable for applications such as crisis management and battlefield communications. In battlefield team members might need to work in groups or scattered in the terrain. In such terrain, intergroup communication is crucial to the team collaboration. T...

Organizations increasingly define their software development projects as “virtual project teams”, where project members from within the organization cooperate with outside experts and therefore build a “community”, which in many cases o1perates as a highly distributed team. Process modeling, composition and – configuration are substantial ingredients for team activities. This paper analyses the...

Interest on using mobile autonomous agents has been growing, recently, due to their capacity to cooperate for diverse purposes, from rescue to demining and security. However, such cooperation requires the exchange of state data that is time sensitive and thus, applications should be aware of data temporal coherency. In this paper we describe the architecture of the agents that constitute the CA...

Nowadays, a collection of two or more autonomous mobile agents working together are denoted as teams or simply societies of mobile robots. In Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) robots are allowed to coordinate with each other in order to achieve a speci c goal. In these systems, robots are far less capable as an entity, but the real power lies in the cooperation of the team. The simplicity of MRS has pr...

Data Intensive Mobile Sensor Networks (DIMSNs) introduce a promising but still under-utilized technology. Meanwhile, there is a growing confidence that certain applications (Killer Apps) have a potential to create a sustained market for this technology. For example, a large team of cooperative mobile robots can be considered as a wireless sensornet composed of a number of mobile nodes most of w...

Situational awareness in rescue operations can be provided by teams of autonomous mobile robots. Human operators are required to teleoperate the current generation of mobile robots for this application; however, teleoperation is increasingly difficult as the number of robots is expanded. As the number of robots is increased, each robot may interfere with one another and eventually decrease mapp...