Abstract: Focusing on distributed autonomous control of multi-robot system, an open multi-agent architecture (OMAA) is presented. Based on the designing principle and techniques of the OMAA, a multiple mobile robot system is established to perform the cooperative tasks in real time and real world. Some agent technologies have been integrated in the system such as machine vision, sensor fusion, wireless network communication, behavior-based control, etc. Experiment results of multi-robot formation control demonstrate the validity of our scheme.