Delegate MASs for coordination and control of one-directional AGV systems: a proof-of-concept

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-017-0915-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-017-0915-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-0915-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00170-017-0915-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Delegate MASs for coordination and control of one-directional AGV systems: a proof-of-concept

Original language description

Decentralized coordination and route planning face the challenges such as scalability, dynamic changes (disturbances) in the environment, continuous planning, and coordination issues (i.e., deadlock and livelock situations). Self-organized delegate multi-agent systems (D-MASs) have proven to be effective decentralized coordination mechanisms for coordination and control (C&amp;C) applications. However, the use of such coordination mechanisms becomes more challenging, compared to the previous studies, in which the coordinated entities are one-directional automated guided vehicles (AGVs), with restricted movement, situated in a highly dynamic production environment. To address these challenges, there were several problematic situations identified dealing with issues such as the originally proposed functionalities of D-MASs, restricted movement, priority parameter settings, and simulated failures of AGVs. Solutions (coordination rules) to these situations were proposed, also described examples were provided and, finally, the approach was verified by simulation in the 3D environment, involving five AGV agents (AGVAs). Simple indicators of such intralogistics system were proposed to outline the system performance. Simulations were performed with as well as without simulated failure states. Simulation results show that the proof-of-concept was reached, and that by the combination of the proposed coordination rules and D-MAS, one-directional AGVAs were able to generate a short-term forecast for the near future and thus anticipate and avoid coordination issues as well as to cope with simulated failures.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20301 - Mechanical engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

ISSN

0268-3768

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

94

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

415-431

UT code for WoS article

000419114100033

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85027357766