1. Riga Technical University Department of System Theory and Design Usage of Multi-Agent Paradigm in Multi-Robot Systems Integration Assistant professor Egons Lavendelis egons.lavendelis@rtu.lv Riga, Latvia

2. Multi-agent systems & Robotics research Robotics research: Multi-agent system based multi-robot system technology enabling the widely available stand alone robots to cooperatively accomplish large tasks Wide experience in mobile robotics, including, highly mobile robotic platforms, their motion schema, general AI techniques and machine learning based control, high precision positioning sensors for laboratory use Multi-agent research: Agent oriented software engineering methodology MASITS and CASE tool Practical multi-agent system applications Multi-agent architectures, interaction protocols Ontologies and their usage 2

3. The project idea Hard to integrate heterogeneous robotic systems and lack of reliable development frameworks The general idea is to bring semantics based communications into embedded multi-robot control systems to enable automatic collaboration, teaming decision making as well as data and knowledge sharing among autonomous robotic systems The aim of the project is to develop hardware and software solution turning regular mobile robotic systems into smart collaborative devices Plug&Play robotic devices 3

4. Multi-agent approach Idea: to use multi-agent paradigm as a core technique for developing multi-robot system management software The main role of agents at the management level is to represent robotic systems (physical agents) Increases effectiveness of multi robot system management by –Tailoring heterogeneity and complexity of physical entities –Modelling of future operation scenarios –Behaviour optimization of the system –Higher usability from end-user view point 4

5. Our vision 5

6. 6 Thank you for your attention! Feel free to contact me about any projects related to our research areas! egons.lavendelis@rtu.lv