Emergence of the Cooperation-Competition between Two Robots

Abstract

The work studies the trajectories, the emergent strategies and the effects due to the interaction of two robots, in a simulated environment. The robots have the same task: crossing some fixed zones of the environment. The study is focused on the emergence of collaborative or competitive behaviour, which is valued by taking into account the interaction area locations and the impact of the interaction on the behaviour. The results of the research show emergent behaviours with a strong analogy with those of dominance in nature, in which animals organize itself in groups that follow particular geometries. The experiments highlight that the resulting interaction geometries depend on the agent evolution degree and on the interaction area locations, while the relationship between these two factors appears as reciprocal.