On mobile agents for learning and coordination in a networked robotics milieu

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the coordination of activities delivery of services along with sharing of information and learning in networked robots The thesis presents a paradigm that amalgamates the use of both soft and hard agents viz mobile software agents and robots and discusses mechanisms inspired from the nature and its processes The mobile software agents are used as a tool to realize the proposed mechanisms in a truly distributed and decentralized settings Overall there are five contrib