Accession Number:

AD1004472

Title:

A Multi-Agent Route Exploration Problem

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge United States

Personal Author(s):

• Feron,Eric
• Ny,Jerome L.

Report Date:

2005-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

We investigate a route exploration problem with N agents dropped randomly on the interval 0,b and discuss the impact of using multiple agents to perform this task. We consider both a discrete and a continuous description of the path to explore. Independently, we study an exploration problem with probabilistic agents having limited autonomy. In both problems , multi-agent scenarios are discussed with an emphasis on the number of agents necessary to obtain good performance.

Descriptors:

• MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
• TRADE OFF ANALYSIS
• random variables

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE