Multi-agent techniques are expected to develop flexible systems forr utilization in environmental situations, which change complicatedly and continuously-especially, rescue systems in large-scale disasters enabling reductions of damage and preventing many deaths. The RoboCupRescue project was started in Japan in 1999. The project is one of international research to develop rescue systems for large-scale disasters. The project uses the multi-agent approach to realize its aims. In this paper, we deal with the RoboCupRescue simulation project.
One of areas of interest in multi-agent techniques is the realization of efficient cooperative behavior design of multi-agent systems. The problems of large-scale disasters can not be solved utilizing these traditional frameworks because rescue agents have mobility and can get only restricted information (just a part of the information). So, in the traditional frameworks, agents cannot communicate with each other and form short time suitable groups. Besides, agents need to behave in a real-time environment that is changing complicatedly and continuously.
In this paper, we propose a cooperative model of rescue agents by a group forming algorithm behavior of rescue agents. We define group as a set of agents that solve a same problem cooperatively. By using this model, agent can form a group whenever it is required to solve the problem. We implemented our rescue agent and confirmed efficiency of our model and algorithm through some simulations.