CREATION OF INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGY

Baltazár Frankovič - Ivana Budinská

   Recently, the multi-agent system approach is a very fast-growing technology. Because of its distributed nature it can be used in many applications to settle sophisticated problems, such as planning, scheduling, etc. A multi agent system consists of several autonomous agents with their own strategy and behaviour. Agents cooperate with each other to achieve common goals. Cooperating agents create agent coalitions. Coalitions can be considered as elements that create a network of agent coalitions. The paper introduces a method for creation of an intelligent control system based on multi-agent technology. Architecture of an intelligent distributed control system (IDCS) based on the network of agent coalitions is presented in the paper. The advantages of a multi- agent system approach are described. The proposed method is illustrated on an example of a virtual power system.

Keywords: control systems, agent coalition, planning and scheduling

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