Communications and basic coordination of robots in TeamChaos

Abstract

How to coordinate a set of robots is still an open issue. It is a problem made up by several sub-problems. One of them is how to share information among the members of a team without compromising the basic requirements of the application. In this paper we show the communication architecture we have designed to let a team of robots communicate. We present an application of this architecture to implement a simple ball booking protocol to share the information about the ball among the robotic team members in the 4-legged RoboCup. This protocol let us to define strategies for optimizing our tactic during a match