Multiagent applications

1
Multiagent applications
With materials from SRI, USC, Paris VI and others
2
Automated Office Applications
3
Automated Office Applications
4
Multimodal Maps Application
5
Unified Messaging
6
CommandTalk Application
A spoken language interface to the LeatherNet
military simulation and training system
7
Applications Paris VI (Dragoul)

• Computer-aided design simulation of complex
  industrial systems
• Carosse (w. Peugeot-Citroën)
• Cassiopeia Methodology
• Graphical (2D) representation of complex data
• Garden of Chances (artistical project)
• Data Garden (w. France Telecom) e-mail
  organization

8
Collective Robotics

• MICROBES immersion of a group of 10 autonomous
  robots in a human collectivity.
• Design of the individual and collective behaviors
  to ensure the  survival  of the group.
• Study of the interactions between humans and
  robots in a shared environment (with Bruno
  Latours sociology team).
• Interactive learning

9
Ants MANTA (1991-1998)

• Question
• how to explain the formation of social structures
  (division of task, hierarchies, etc.) in ant
  colonies ?
• Knowledge
• ants behaviors (observed by ethologists),
  communication (by measure) and biological
   parameters 
• Experiments
• 1000 in a virtual laboratory, analyzed with the
  same (statistical) tools than real colonies
• Results
• Confirmation of the self-organizing processes
  hypothetized by ethologists
• Invalidation of many alternate hypotheses (age
  influence, etc.)

10
Traffic Archisim (94-..)

• Goal
• to reproduce a road traffic accurate at all
  levels, for predicting the impacts of new car
  equipments, new infrastructures, new laws
• Knowledge
• drivers behaviors (observed by psychologists),
  infrastructure, car dynamics, weather, etc.
• Experiments
• in virtual environments (1) and with a simulator
  (2)
• Results
• New infrastructure tests (like crossways)
• New models of drivers behavior

Signs
Traffic lights
Road
Car driver
1
2
11
Hydrology Rivages (97-..)

• Goal
• to reproduce water flow dynamics in heterogeneous
  complex physical environments
• Knowledge
• local interactions of waterballs (erosion, etc.)
• Experiments
• in a virtual laboratory reproducing physical
  environments, at different scales
• Results
• Possibility to simulate the impact of obstacles
  on the water flow (dams, walls, etc., possibly
  dynamical ones)
• Possibility to combine several  functions 
  collision, erosion, infiltration, etc.

12
Electric Elves
Milind Tambe David Pynadath Teamcore
Research Group Craig Knoblock Yolanda Gil
Hans Chalupsky
Funded by DARPA COABS
13
Current FocusElves in One Research Group

• Mixed 15 agent team
• Agent proxies for 9 researchers (called Friday)
• Interface via PDA with GPS, WAP phones
• Agent proxy for a project assistant
• Information agents, schedulers, matchers
• Agent proxies run 24/7
• First deployment in a real organization
• Coordinate meetings (reschedule if delays,
  cancel)
• Decide presenters at research meetings (via
  auctions)
• Track people (www.isi.edu/teamcore/info.html)
• Order our meals

14
Messages in a Three Months Run
Number of messages
June 1 to August 31, 2000
15
Elves in Use Auctions
PAUL SCERRI WILL BE THE PRESENTER FOR
TEAMCORE Meeting on 7/20/2000

• If presenter cannot attend the meeting, then
  substitute

16
Elves in Use Reschedule Meetings
17
Friday Ordering Dinner
18
Elves in Use Wireless Devices

• PALM VII
• GPS
• PALM VII
• Allows GPS
• Transmission

WAP Phone

• Enable remote human interaction with agents
• Scheduling information, queries, short
  messages..
• Order meals from the beach!
• Enable agents to track human location
• GPS (but does not work inside buildings,
  tunnels)
• PALM to PALM beaming
• Not sufficient for tracking finger, other
  sources fused

19
Elves in Use Track Locations