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Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-Based Behavior Control of Grid Sortation Systems in Smart Factory (스마트 팩토리에서 그리드 분류 시스템의 협력적 다중 에이전트 강화 학습 기반 행동 제어)

  • Choi, HoBin;Kim, JuBong;Hwang, GyuYoung;Kim, KwiHoon;Hong, YongGeun;Han, YounHee
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.9 no.8
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    • pp.171-180
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    • 2020
  • Smart Factory consists of digital automation solutions throughout the production process, including design, development, manufacturing and distribution, and it is an intelligent factory that installs IoT in its internal facilities and machines to collect process data in real time and analyze them so that it can control itself. The smart factory's equipment works in a physical combination of numerous hardware, rather than a virtual character being driven by a single object, such as a game. In other words, for a specific common goal, multiple devices must perform individual actions simultaneously. By taking advantage of the smart factory, which can collect process data in real time, if reinforcement learning is used instead of general machine learning, behavior control can be performed without the required training data. However, in the real world, it is impossible to learn more than tens of millions of iterations due to physical wear and time. Thus, this paper uses simulators to develop grid sortation systems focusing on transport facilities, one of the complex environments in smart factory field, and design cooperative multi-agent-based reinforcement learning to demonstrate efficient behavior control.

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-based Behavior Control of Parcel Sortation System (소포물 분류 시스템의 다중 에이전트 강화 학습 기반 행동 제어)

  • Choi, Ho-Bin;Kim, Ju-Bong;Hwang, Gyu-Young;Han, Youn-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2020.11a
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    • pp.1034-1035
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    • 2020
  • 인공지능은 스스로 학습하며 기존 통계 분석보다 탁월한 분석 역량을 지니고 있어 스마트팩토리 혁신에 새로운 전기를 마련할 것으로 기대된다. 이를 증명하듯 스마트팩토리의 주요 분야인 공정 간 연계 제어, 전문가 공정 제어, 로봇 자동화 등에서 활발한 연구가 이어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소포물 분류 시스템에 전통적인 룰 기반의 제어 방식 대신 다중 에이전트 강화 학습 제어 방식을 설계 및 적용하여 효과적인 행동 제어가 가능함을 입증한다.