Analysis and evaluation of cellular robotics (CEBOT) as a distributed intelligent system by communication information amount

Deals with a method of construction of complicated systems based on cells having simple functions. This system is called a cellular robotic system (CEBOT). CEBOT is a kind of a distributed intelligence system which has been considered as one of the next generation artificial intelligence system. Each cell has its own knowledge and database. Each cell can carry out tasks by using its own knowledge and other cells' knowledge. So knowledge allocation must be considered to be optimal due to the intelligent communication. The authors propose the communication system of CEBOT and one method of the communication evaluations based on the communication information calculated from the proposed communication protocol. A concept of the sensitivity for transferring knowledge to the other cell is also described. Some simulation results on estimation of knowledge allocation by minimizing the communication information capacity and the sensitivity are reported.<<ETX>>