Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference

This paper focuses on the development of intelligent multi-agent robot teams that are capable of acting autonomously and of collaborating in a dynamic environment to achieve team objectives. This paper also addresses the problem of achieving a global behavior by a group of simple and autonomous mobile robots. This behavior can be achieved by controlling the local interactions among the members of the robot team-mates. A new vision based technique in the context of robot formation task is proposed. There is neither global information nor team leader is available therefore to get different robot formations, a distributed algorithm for robot controller is proposed. A simulated team of robots based on Webots simulator is constructed to validate the proposed approaches. Different robot formations experiments are conducted, the results show that the robot teams were able to achieve their objectives despite dynamic changes in the environment and variations in the capabilities of the team members.