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Cooperative Control of the Multi-Agent System for Teleoperation (원격조종 다개체 로봇의 협동제어)

  • 황정훈;권동수
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.154-154
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    • 2000
  • The cooperative strategy for the teleoperated multi-agent system is presented. And this scheme has been applied to the teleoperated robot soccer system that is newly proposed. For the teleoperated robot soccer system, we made mapping functions to control a 2-wheeled mobile robot using a 2 DoF stickcontroller. The simulation with a real stickcontroller has been evaluated the performance of the proposed mapping function. Then, the basic cooperation strategy has been tested between teleoperated robot and autonomous robot It is shown that the multi-agent system for teleoperation can have a good performance for a job Like a scoring a goal

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On a Multi-Agent System for Assisting Human Intention

  • Tawaki, Hajime;Tan, Joo Kooi;Kim, Hyoung-Seop;Ishikawa, Seiji
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1126-1129
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose a multi-agent system for assisting those who need help in taking objects around him/her. One may imagine this kind of situation when a person is lying in bed and wishes to take an object on a distant table that cannot be reached only by stretching his/her hand. The proposed multi-agent system is composed of three main independent agents; a vision agent, a robot agent, and a pass agent. Once a human expresses his/her intention by pointing to a particular object using his/her hand and a finger, these agents cooperatively bring the object to him/her. Natural communication between a human and the multi-agent system is realized in this way. Performance of the proposed system is demonstrated in an experiment, in which a human intends to take one of the four objects on the floor and the three agents successfully cooperate to find out the object and to bring it to the human.

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Design of a Multi-Agent System Architecture for Implementing CPFR (CPFR 구현을 위한 다중 에이전트 시스템 구조설계)

  • Kim, Chang-Ouk;Kim, Sun-II;Yoon, Jung-Wook;Park, Yun-Sun
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2004
  • Advance in Internet technology has changed traditional production planning and control methods. In particular, collaborations between participants in supply chains are being increasingly addressed in industry for enhancing chain-wide productivity. A representative paradigm that emphasizes collaboration in production planning and control is CPFR(Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment). In this paper, we present a multi-agent system architecture that supports the collaborations specified in CPFR. The multi-agent system architecture consists of event manager, data view agent, business rule agent, and collaboration agent. The collaboration agent systematically controls negotiation between supplier and buyer with the aid of collaboration protocol and blackboard. The multi-agent system has been implemented with EJB(Enterprise Java Beans).

Multi Agent Flow Control in Roundabout Using Self-Organization Technique

  • Kim, Gyu-Sung;Kim, Dong-Won;Park, Gwi-Tae
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1735-1740
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, ways of improving the performances of roundabouts under the assumption that the Advanced Vehicle System is proposed. The situation on a road contains uncertainty and complexity caused by different vehicles having different directions and time-varying traffic flow. This sort of system with high uncertainty is called Multi Agent System (MAS). The MAS is a collective system, including numbers of agents and performs high diversity of the configuration as well as it has nonlinear property and complexity. Hence it is difficult to analyze and control the multi-agent system. A roundabout can be considered as an MAS with numbers of moving vehicles. So it must be difficult to use a centralized control technique to all vehicles in an intersection. Therefore, to improve the performances of roundabouts, multi-agents flow control algorithm for vehicles in Roundabouts using 'self-organization' technique is proposed.

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Fuzzy Formation Controlling Phugoid Model-Based Multi-Agent Systems (장주기모델로 구성된 다개체시스템의 퍼지 군집제어)

  • Moon, Ji Hyun;Lee, Jaejun;Lee, Ho Jae
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.508-512
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    • 2016
  • This paper discusses a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy controller design problem for a phugoid model-based multi-agent system. The error between the state of a phugoid model and a reference is defined to construct a multi-agent system model. A T-S fuzzy model of the multi-agent system is built by introducing a nonlinear controller. A fuzzy controller is then designed to stabilize the T-S fuzzy model, where the synthesis condition is represented in terms of linear matrix inequalities.

Graph Connectivity-free Consensus Algorithm for State-coupled Linear Multi-agent Systems: Adaptive Approach (적응 제어를 이용하여 그래프 연결성을 배제시킨 선형 다개체 시스템의 상태변수 일치 알고리듬)

  • Kim, Ji-Su;Kim, Hong-Keun;Shim, Hyung-Bo;Back, Ju-Hoon
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.617-621
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    • 2012
  • This paper studies asymptotic consensus problem for linear multi-agent systems. We propose a distributed state feedback control algorithm for solving the problem under fixed and undirected network communication. In contrast with the conventional algorithms that use global information (e.g., graph connectivity), the proposed algorithm only uses local information from neighbors. The principle for achieving asymptotic consensus is that, for each agent, a distributed update law gradually increases the coupling gain of LQR-type feedback and thus, the overall stability of the multi-agent system is recovered by the gain margin of LQR.

Cooperative Path Planning of Dynamical Multi-Agent Systems Using Differential Flatness Approach

  • Lian, Feng-Li
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.401-412
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    • 2008
  • This paper discusses a design methodology of cooperative path planning for dynamical multi-agent systems with spatial and temporal constraints. The cooperative behavior of the multi-agent systems is specified in terms of the objective function in an optimization formulation. The path of achieving cooperative tasks is then generated by the optimization formulation constructed based on a differential flatness approach. Three scenarios of multi-agent tasking are proposed at the cooperative task planning framework. Given agent dynamics, both spatial and temporal constraints are considered in the path planning. The path planning algorithm first finds trajectory curves in a lower-dimensional space and then parameterizes the curves by a set of B-spline representations. The coefficients of the B-spline curves are further solved by a sequential quadratic programming solver to achieve the optimization objective and satisfy these constraints. Finally, several illustrative examples of cooperative path/task planning are presented.

A Multiagent-Based Hybrid Power Control and Management of Distributed Power Sources

  • Yoon, Gi-Gab;Hong, Won-Pyo;Lee, Ki-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.25 no.8
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    • pp.70-81
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, a multi-agent control system for DC-coupled photovoltaic (PV), fuel cell (FC), ultracapacitor(UC) and battery hybrid power system is studied for commercial buildings & apartment buildings microgrid. In this proposed system, the PV system provides electric energy to the electrolyzer to produce hydrogen for future use and transfer to the load side, if possible. Whenever the PV system cannot completely meet load demands, the FC system provides power to meet the remaining load. A multi-agent system based-power management and control algorithm is proposed for the hybrid power system by taking into account the characteristics of each power source. The main works of this paper are hybridization of alternate energy sources with FC systems using long and short storage strategies to build the multi-agent control system with pragmatic design, and a dynamic model proposed for a PV/FC/UC/battery bank hybrid power generation system. A dynamic simulation model for the hybrid power system has been developed using Matlab/Simulink, SimPowerSystems and Stateflow. Simulation results are also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed multi-agent control and management system for building microgrid.

A Computational Interactive Approach to Multi-agent Motion Planning

  • Ji, Sang-Hoon;Choi, Jeong-Sik;Lee, Beom-Hee
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.295-306
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    • 2007
  • It is well known that mathematical solutions for multi-agent planning problems are very difficult to obtain due to the complexity of mutual interactions among multi-agents. Most of the past research results are thus based on the probabilistic completeness. However, the practicality and effectiveness of the solution from the probabilistic completeness is significantly reduced by heavy computational burden. In this paper, we propose a practically applicable solution technique for multi-agent planning problems, which assures a reasonable computation time and a real world application for more than 3 multi-agents, for the case of general shaped paths in agent movement. First, to reduce the computation time, an extended collision map is developed and utilized for detecting potential collisions and obtaining collision-free solutions for multi-agents. Second, a priority for multi-agents is considered for successive and interactive modifications of the agent movements with lower priority. Various solutions using speed reduction and time delay of the relevant agents are investigated and compared in terms of the computation time. A practical implementation is finally provided for three different types of agents to emphasize the effectiveness of the proposed interactive approach to multi-agent planning problems.

Role-Behavior Based Access Control on Mobile Agent System for Workflow Management System (워크플로우 응용을 위한 이동 에이전트 시스템에의 역할-행위 기반 접근통제 적용)

  • Shin, Wook;Lee, Dong-Ik;Yoon, Seok-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.11-28
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    • 2000
  • In these days it is rapidly increasing that multi-user, multi-layered commercial software developments for companies or public institutions. Security services are necessary for most of systems and the access control service is the essential of security services. Current access control methods that are used as access control policies are classified as Discretionary Access Control Mandatory Access Control and Role Based Access Control. However there are some inefficiencies when those methods are applied to current multi-user, multi-layered systems. Therefore it is required that a new access control method that takes complex system resources into account from the side of policy. In this paper extending previous Role Based of 'Behavior' and a basic model of the method. And we simply implement the method on the mobile agent based workflow management system that is a representative example of multi-user. multi-layered softwares and shows implementation results to tap possibilities of real-world application.