Gregory O’Hare Department of Computer Science, UCD

COMP 4.19 Multi-Agent Systems

Lectures 17&18

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Alice in Wonderland

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense, nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what it is it wouldn't be and what it wouldn't be it would.”  Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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An Interesting Synergy

Embodiment

Immersion

Situatedness

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Agent Chameleons: Objectives

The objectives of Agent Chameleons are as follows:  To investigate the choice and selection of embodiment forms;

To develop a mechanism whereby agent chameleons can migrate;

To investigate processes that support the mutation and evolution of agent forms;

To re-examine the concept of community and offer a redefinition based upon Collaborative Immersive Virtual Environments [O’Hare et al 2001]

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The Future…

• Blurring the Boundaries between The Physical & The Virtual

• Augmentation of the virtual with the physical

Blue-c Project ETH Real Humans in Virtual Worlds

• Augmentation of the physical with the virtual

• Virtual Round Table – GMD

• Interactive Video Environment - MIT

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The Vision

Traditional world boundaries dismantled.

Seamless migration from the physical to the virtual to the physical

Metamorphosis – change of representation, namely a form appropriate to the task and the context is adopted

- agents adopt an avatar persona

- humans adopt robotic avatar persona

- robots adopt a humanoid persona (HMDs)

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……………...and Beyond

The form of an entity inextricably dictates or constrains its behavior and capabilities.

The form is very much dependent upon its world.

Appropriate forms or persona ought to empower the entity;

We strive for agent chameleons which evolve, mutate, clone……

a next generation of evolution?

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A Digital Friend

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Seamless Migration

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Agent Mutation

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Empowering the Agent

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Publications

O'Hare, G.M.P., Duffy, B.R., Bradley, J.F. and Martin, A.N. "Agent Chameleons: Moving Minds from Robots to Digital Information Spaces", Procedings of Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment - AMiRE 2003Brisbane, Australia, February 18-21 2003.

O'Hare, G.M.P., Duffy, B.R."Agent Chameleons: Migration and Mutation within and between Real and Virtual Spaces",The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour - AISB 2002,Imperial College, England, April 3-5, 2002.

O'Hare, G.M.P."Agents, Mobility and Virtuality: A Necessary Synergy",Proceedings of International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organisations and E-Commerce - MAMA 2000,ICSC Academic Press, Wollongong, Australia, December 11-13, 2000.

Duffy, B.R., O'Hare, G.M.P., O'Donoghue, R.P.S., Rooney, C.F.B., and Collier, R.W "Reality and virtual reality in mobile robotics", 1st International Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments - MANSE'99,Dublin, December 1999.

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