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Using Dynamic Capability Evaluation to Organize a Team of Cooperative, Autonomous Robots Eric Matson Scott DeLoach Multi-agent and Cooperative Robotics Laboratory Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA matson@cis.ksu.edu sdeloach@cis.ksu.edu Abstract available robot or agent plays what role. The ability for an organization to assign roles In our research, we have developed an architecture dynamically has been explored and documented and computational structure that allows for a generic [3]. We will descend further into the team of robots to dynamically discern what their organizational process to examine the evaluation capabilities are and then apply those to evaluate if the of capabilities and how capabilities are the base team can achieve an externally mandated set of goals. We define the process of dy namic cap ability of the decision making framework, within the evaluation to determine if a team of robots can build process of organization [4]. a cooperative organization with the necessary The evaluation of who plays what role is capabilities to satisfy a set of stated organizational decided over a set of constraints. Some of the goals. Based on this evaluation, the organization will notable constraints are: decide whe