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Social-Aware Coordination of Multi-robot Systems Based on Institutions

Ferreira Maia Pereira, José Nuno  
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Silva, Porfírio
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Lima, Pedro U.
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Spagnolo, Paolo
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Mazzeo, Pier L.
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2014
Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing: Theory and Applications of Networks of Sensors

Institutional robotics (IR) is an approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems that draws inspiration from social sciences, namely from institutional economics. Using the concept of institution, it aims to provide a comprehensive strategy for specifying social interactions (e.g., norms, roles, hierarchies) among robots. In previous work, we have introduced a control methodology for multi-robot systems that takes into account institutions in order to create an Institutional Agent Controller (IAC) that captures such social interactions. In this chapter, the IAC design methodology is validated in a case study concerned with a swarm of 40 real, resource-constrained robots which has to maintain wireless connectivity. We then investigate a second case study dealing with more complex social interactions, showing that institutional roles can effectively help a multi-robot system to coordinate and improve performance in a given task of social nature. Given the fact that institutions are one of the tools in use within human societies to shape social interactions, our intuition is that IR can also facilitate coordination with humans in scenarios involving many-to-many human–robot interactions. We discuss how the IR concepts and the IAC design methodology can be implemented in real-world scenarios where multiple robots must interact with multiple humans in a socially aware manner.

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DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-10807-0_19
Author(s)
Ferreira Maia Pereira, José Nuno  
Silva, Porfírio
Lima, Pedro U.
Martinoli, Alcherio  
Editors
Spagnolo, Paolo
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Mazzeo, Pier L.
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Distante, Cosimo
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

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Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing: Theory and Applications of Networks of Sensors
ISBN of the book

978-3-319-10806-3 (Print)

978-3-319-10807-0 (Online)

Book part title

Multi-robot Systems

Start page

407

End page

430

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EPFL

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DISAL  
Available on Infoscience
January 26, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/110537
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