Comunicación en sistemas de múltiples robots desde la metodología MAD-Smart Multiple robot systems' communication using MAD-Smart methodology

This paper was aimed at exhibiting the real need for having good communication within multiple robots systems using MAD-Smart methodology. Such methodology consists of conceptualising, analysing and designing multiple robot teams by defining a set of activities. MAD-Smart assists developers in further understanding not only the problem to be solved but the final characteristics which a particular system must accomplish and the role played by each agent in resolving problems. This methodology has already been validated by implementing the SMART (robotic multiagent system) project, educational robotics: intelligent machines in education and sensory and perception models in robotic agents for material identification. MAD-Smart has been shown to be more relevant in handling agent roles than the agents themselves for a given communication model. This issue reflects this methodology’s degree of abstraction since a role defining as an abstract representation of high level behavioural allows generalising the best possible scenarios which can be found in a given multi-robot system.