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A fuzzy-based reliability system for knowledge sharing between robots in P2P JXTA-overlay platform

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The design of an efficient collaborative multi-robot framework that ensures the autonomy and the individual requirements of the involved robots is a very challenging task. This requires designing an efficient platform for inter-robot communication. P2P is a good approach to achieve this goal. P2P aims at making the communication ubiquitous thereby crossing the communication boundary and has many attractive features to use it as a platform for collaborative multi-robot environments. In this paper, we present our implemented P2P system based on JXTA Overlay. We use JXTA Overlay as a platform for robot collaboration and knowledge sharing. We also propose a fuzzy-based peer reliability system for JXTA-Overlay platform considering three parameters: Actual Behavior Criterion (ABC), Mutually Agreed Behavior (MAB) and Reputation (R). We evaluated the knowledge sharing system by many experiments and show that this system has a good performance and can be used successfully for knowledge sharing between robots. Also, we present some simulation results, which show the fuzzy-based peer reliability system has a good behavior and can successfully select the best peer candidate.

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This work is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for scientific research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The authors would like to thank JSPS for the financial support.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 811-0295, Japan

    Evjola Spaho & Kouhei Umezaki

  2. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 811-0295, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  3. Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Technical University of Catalonia, C/Jordi Girona 1–3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  4. Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX33 1HX, UK

    Muhammad Younas

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Spaho, E., Umezaki, K., Barolli, L. et al. A fuzzy-based reliability system for knowledge sharing between robots in P2P JXTA-overlay platform. Cluster Comput 16, 933–945 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-012-0230-y

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