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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smirnov, Alexander
• Teslya, Nikolay
• Ronzhin, Andrey
• Kostyaev, Alexander
• Berns, Karsten

Titel

Robot Coalition Coordination in Precision Agriculture by Smart Contracts in Blockchain

Ist Teil von

• Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production, p.271-283

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Precision farming is becoming a leading area of agricultural development. The driver of this development is global digitalization and robotization of the main functions of agriculture. At the same time, robots (combines, transporters, tractors, quadcopters) are equipped with algorithms that provide a high degree of autonomy in decision making. In this regard, it is required to ensure the joint work of robots of various types in a single coalition to achieve the maximum effect from the processing of the field, that is, growing and collecting the maximum possible yield per hectare. This paper proposes a mechanism for the formation of a coalition of robots based on socio-inspired self-organization. The proposed mechanism was tested in a virtual environment based on Gazebo/ROS to assess the quality of the coalition being formed. Test results show appropriateness for any coalition type creating. The type of coalition is defined in dynamic way by the environmental state, task type, and robots’ types. Smart contracts in a distributed ledger based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform are used to provide trusted interaction between robots during and after coalition formation.