EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L91764/01 |
Title: |
MACTA-LAB |
Principal Investigator: |
Aylett, Professor R |
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Department: |
Informatics Research Institute |
Organisation: |
University of Salford |
Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
Starts: |
30 June 1998 |
Ends: |
29 June 2000 |
Value (£): |
78,218
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The EPSRC/ITE funded project MACTA has developed a proof of concets demonstrator in which a heterogeneous multi-agent architecture allows a reflective agent using AI Planning to servise multiple cooperative robots running a behavioural architecture. The developing area of immobots suggests that large distributed sensor rich systems can be approached as multi-robot systems which do not move. This project will investigate the extent to which the MACTA robotic multi-architecture can be reapplied to immobot domain and will produce a new immobot architecture.At the same time, technology transfer work woith one of the industrial associates of the MACTA project identified the domain of Lab. Automaton as one in which technology transfer might take place. The project proposes therefore to approach the Automated Lab. as an immobot domain.A discrete event simulation package will be used to model the domain and interface it to the immobot architecture. Reflective and behavioural agents will be defined in order to support WHAT-IF exploration of the consequences of design decisions.The project will contribute new knowledge both to the novel immobot approach to distributed systems and to the aplpication of multi-agent architecture to real-world domains.
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