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Emergent Team Formation: Applying Division of Labour Principles to Robot Soccer

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Engineering Self-Organising Systems (ESOA 2004)

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Robotic soccer remains an area of active research owing to the difficulties of dynamic team formation and hard real time constraints regarding planning. Much of the existing research relies upon a central agency for coordination. Insect societies distribute work and allocate roles without a need for such a central agency and are robust with respect to changing environments and available agent resources. This paper explores the use of insect-inspired division of labour principles to robot soccer, highlighting the flexibility of the approach and ability to adapt to a wide range of soccer playing strategies.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

    Tony White & James Helferty

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    Sven A. Brueckner

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College London,  

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  3. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, 37 Glavani, 28th October Str., Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor, room D3/4, 382 21, Volos, Greece

    Anthony Karageorgos

  4. Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Computer Science Dept., Harvard University, 235 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, MA 02138, Cambridge, USA

    Radhika Nagpal

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White, T., Helferty, J. (2005). Emergent Team Formation: Applying Division of Labour Principles to Robot Soccer. In: Brueckner, S.A., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Karageorgos, A., Nagpal, R. (eds) Engineering Self-Organising Systems. ESOA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494676_12

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