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This paper explores the use of bidding mechanisms to coordinate the actions requested by a group of agents in charge of achieving the task of guiding a robot towards a specified target in an unknown environment. This approach is based on a qualitative (fuzzy) approach to landmark-based navigation.
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Sierra, C., de López Màntaras, R., Busquets, D. (2001). Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation. In: Castelfranchi, C., Lespérance, Y. (eds) Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages. ATAL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44631-1_14
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