A Study on a Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System : 8th Report, Self-organizing Distributed Intelligence System of Learning and Reasoning for Cellular Robotics "CEBOT"

We have studied "Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT)", which consists of many kinds of units called "cell". CEBOT is required to be able to carry out many sorts of tasks under various surroundings. But it is impossible for CEBOT to be installed all sorts of the task execution procedure. Then CEBOT should be able to generate task execution procedures for a new task by reconfigurating himself. In this paper, we propose a new kind of the distributed intelligence system which is based on the concept of CEBOT. This proposed intelligence system has the abilities of learning, reasoning, and self-organizing. As similar to the hard ware structure of CEBOT, this system consists of various kinds of intelligence units called "knowledge-cell". By using the knowledge-cells and the proposed algorithms, the system which tan generate task procedures is realized. Some simulations are also shown for demonstrating the self-organization and self-evolution abilities of the distributed intelligence system.