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Flexible Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior Using HTN Planning


Oliver Obst and Joschka Boedecker. Flexible Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior Using HTN Planning. In Itsuki Noda, Adam Jacoff, Ansgar Bredenfeld, and Yasutake Takahashi, editors, RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 521–528, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2006.


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Abstract

The domain of robotic soccer is known as a highly dynamic and non-deterministic environment for multiagent research. We introduce an approach using Hierarchical Task Network planning in each of the agents for high-level coordination and description of team strategies. Our approach facilitates the maintenance of expert knowledge specified as team strategies separated from the agent implementation. By combining high level plans with reactive basic operators, agents can pursue a grand strategy while staying reactive to changes in the environment. Our results show that the use of a planner in a multiagent system is both possible and useful despite the constraints in dynamic environments.

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@incollection{OB06,
	Abstract = {The domain of robotic soccer is known as a highly
		   dynamic and non-deterministic environment for multiagent research. We
		   introduce an approach using Hierarchical Task Network planning in each of
		   the agents for high-level coordination and description of team strategies.
		   Our approach facilitates the maintenance of expert knowledge specified as
		   team strategies separated from the agent implementation. By combining high
		   level plans with reactive basic operators, agents can pursue a grand
		   strategy while staying reactive to changes in the environment. Our results
		   show that the use of a planner in a multiagent system is both possible and
		   useful despite the constraints in dynamic environments.},
	Address = {Berlin, Heidelberg, New York},
	Author = {Oliver Obst and Joschka Boedecker},
	Booktitle = {{R}obo{C}up 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup~{IX}},
	Editor = {Itsuki Noda and Adam Jacoff and Ansgar Bredenfeld and
		   Yasutake Takahashi},
	Pages = {521--528},
	Publisher = {Springer},
	Series = lnai,
	Title = {Flexible Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior Using
		   {HTN} Planning},
	Year = 2006,