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Conclusions and the future work

A hierarchical multiagent DVT architecture suitable for a large class of realistic problems has been proposed. The behaviour of the described coordination procedure is comparable to the recent solution proposed in [1], but the hierarchical coordination approach has a great potential for more sophisticated behaviours due to the availability of the explicit common view. Eventual network congestion problems arising for large observer counts could be overcome by extending the architecture with a ``recursive'' coordinator type, being able to perform as an observer responsible to the coordinator agent at a higher hierarchical level.

The obtained experimental results confirmed that the proposed architecture is a viable approach for putting together the required software components in a manageable, flexible and extensible manner. The future work will be directed towards refinements to the existing architecture in order to achieve more involved coordination schemes, as well as towards dealing with procedures for diminishing the systematic error in observer measurements, and ensuring robustness of the system in the view of the physical contact of tracked objects.


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Sinisa Segvic 2003-02-25