Towards Blockchain-based Multi-Agent Robotic Systems: Analysis, Classification and Applications
This is an incremental survey that addresses the problem of improving trust and coordination in multi-robot systems for researchers and developers.
The paper provides an overview and classification of blockchain-based solutions for multi-agent robotic systems, analyzing how decentralization and immutability can enhance trust and efficiency in robot interactions.
Decentralization, immutability and transparency make of Blockchain one of the most innovative technology of recent years. This paper presents an overview of solutions based on Blockchain technology for multi-agent robotic systems, and provide an analysis and classification of this emerging field. The reasons for implementing Blockchain in a multi-robot network may be to increase the interaction efficiency between agents by providing more trusted information exchange, reaching a consensus in trustless conditions, assessing robot productivity or detecting performance problems, identifying intruders, allocating plans and tasks, deploying distributed solutions and joint missions. Blockchain-based applications are discussed to demonstrate how distributed ledger can be used to extend the number of research platforms and libraries for multi-agent robotic systems.