Multi-robot systems are becoming increasingly relevant within diverse application domains, such as healthcare, exploration, and rescue missions. However, building such systems is still a significant challenge, since it adds the complexities of the physical nature of robots and their environments to those inherent in coordinating any distributed (multi-agent) system. Aggregate Programming (AP) has recently emerged as a promising approach to engineering resilient, distributed systems with proximity-based communication, and is notably supported by practical frameworks. In this paper we present a prototype of a multi-robot service system, which adopts AP for the design and implementation of its coordination software. The prototype has been validated both with simulations, and with tests in a University library.

翻译：多机器人系统在医疗、探索和救援等众多应用领域中变得越来越重要。然而，构建此类系统仍是一项重大挑战，因为它在协调任何分布式（多智能体）系统固有的复杂性基础上，又增加了机器人及其环境的物理特性复杂性。聚合编程（AP）最近作为一种构建基于邻近通信的弹性分布式系统的有前途方法出现，并得到了实用框架的支持。本文介绍了一个多机器人服务系统的原型，该原型采用AP来设计和实现其协调软件。该原型已通过仿真和大学图书馆中的测试得到了验证。