title: Improving social odometry robot networks with distributed reputation systems for collaborative purposes.
abstract: The improvement of odometry systems in collaborative robotics remains an important challenge for several applications. Social odometry is a social technique which confers the robots the possibility to learn from the others. This paper analyzes social odometry and proposes and follows a methodology to improve its behavior based on cooperative reputation systems. We also provide a reference implementation that allows us to compare the performance of the proposed solution in highly dynamic environments with the performance of standard social odometry techniques. Simulation results quantitatively show the benefits of this collaborative approach that allows us to achieve better performances than social odometry.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingeniería electrónica, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Av. Complutense, 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain. dfraga@die.upm.es
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fraga
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Vallejo
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campo
authors.forename: Zorana
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bankovic
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D012371:Robotics