Stochastic Learning Automata for Self-coordination in Heterogeneous Multi-Tasks Selection in Multi-Robot Systems

This paper focuses on the general problem of coordinating multiple robots. More specifically, it addresses the self-election of heterogeneous specialized tasks by autonomous robots, as opposed to the usual multi-tasks allocation problem in multi-robot systems in which an external controller distributes the existing tasks among the individual robots. In this work we are considering a specifically distributed or decentralized approach in which we are particularly interested on decentralized solution where the robots themselves autonomously and in an individual manner, are responsible of selecting a particular task so that all the existing tasks are optimally distributed and executed. In this regard, we have established an experimental scenario and we propose a solution through automata learning-based probabilistic algorithm, to solve the corresponding multi-tasks distribution problem. The paper ends with a critical discussion of experimental results.