Cooperative task planning of multi-agent systems under timed temporal specifications

In this paper the problem of cooperative task planning of multi-agent systems when timed constraints are imposed to the system is investigated. We consider timed constraints given by Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL). We propose a method for automatic control synthesis in a two-stage systematic procedure. With this method we guarantee that all the agents satisfy their own individual task specifications as well as that the team satisfies a team global task specification.

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