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Strut
Node
Fig. 10.1.
Basic unit of tetrahedral structures
Fig. 10.2.
Prototype of a tetrahedron rover (image credit: NASA)
capabilities emerge from the orchestration of the capabilities of the tetrahedra
involved in the complex structure. Figure
10.2
shows a picture of a prototype
tetrahedron.
The basic tetrahedron structure was modeled as a communicating and co-
operating/collaborating four-agent system with an agent associated with each
node of the tetrahedron. An agent, in this context, is an intelligent autonomous
process capable of bi-level deliberative and reactive behaviors with an inter-
vening neural interconnection (the structure of the neural basis function [
30
]).
The node agents also possess social and introspective behaviors. The problem
