Abstract Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer
games, but have received an increasing amount of attention in the robotics community in the …

This paper focuses on the teaming aspects and the role of heterogeneity in a multi-robot
system applied to robot-aided urban search and rescue (USAR) missions. We propose a …

Adopting reasonable strategies is challenging but crucial for an intelligent agent with limited
resources working in hazardous, unstructured, and dynamic environments to improve the …

The question of consciousness has puzzledmany great philosophersfrom time immemorial
and rightly so because of the fact that our brain is made up of flesh and blood and yet …

This article addresses the concurrency issues affecting behavior trees (BTs), a popular tool
to model the behaviors of autonomous agents in the video game and the robotics industry …

Cooperation in multi-agent and multi-robot systems can help agents build various
formations, shapes, and patterns presenting corresponding functions and purposes …

Modelling the biology behind animal behaviour has attracted great interest in recent years.
Nevertheless, neuroscience and artificial intelligence face the challenge of representing and …

Underlying relationships among multiagent systems (MAS) in hazardous scenarios can be
represented as game-theoretic models. In adversarial environments, the adversaries can be …

Underlying relationships among Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in hazardous scenarios can be
represented as Game-theoretic models. This paper proposes a new hierarchical network …

As a unifying concept in economics, game theory, and operations research, even in the
Robotics and AI field, the utility is used to evaluate the level of individual needs, preferences …