Metaphor of Politics: A Mechanism of Coalition Formation

Abstract

Hybrid Multi-Agent Architectures support mobile robot colonies moving in dynamic, unpredictable and time vary ing environments to achieve collective team-oriented behaviors for solving complicate and difficult tasks. The develop ment of a new coalition formation and coordination frame work for robot colonies in dangerous, unknown and dynamic environment is outlined. The name of this new framework is Metaphor of Politics (MP), and it loosely takes inspiration from the political organizations of democratic governments. The main characteristic of the proposed framework lies in its dynamic reconfigurability in order to adapt the robot colony to environmental changes.