Designing organized agents for cooperation with real time constraints

The aim of this paper is to present our approach for designing Multi-Agent Systems in the context of collective robotics and more generally in the context of real time distributed artificial intelligence applications. The paper presents an agent model (ASTRO) especially adapted to a real time context and shows how the cooperation can be achieved with this model by integrating external organizations and interactions. A design methodology is introduced to build agents using social knowledge (interaction and organization). A platform is presented including software development tools supporting the approach.