Agents in industry: the best from the AAMAS 2005 industry track

Safe-guarded multi-agent control for mechatronic systems : implementation framework and design patterns

“…According to Pechoucek et al (2006), this agent-based application group has been formed because of three distribution types of knowledge and control:…”

“…The PowerMatcher uses a combination of multiagent systems technology with distributed algorithms and electronic markets to form an appropriate technology needed for control and coordination tasks in the future electricity network (see figure 2.4). Figure 2.4 Model of the PowerMatcher using the market-based control concept and MAS technology (Kok et al, 2005;Pechoucek et al, 2006) In this system, a local agent represents each device, which performs two jobs: (i) operating the device process in an economically optimal way within the system's constraints and (ii) negotiating their electricity consumption or production on an electronic exchange market. The resulting market price determines the power volume allocated to each device.…”

“…Experiment results indicate a decrease of the total power imbalance by approximately 25 percent. Moreover, reduction of unpredictability in the trade portfolio reduces imbalance costs charged to the trader by the independent network operator (Pechoucek et al, 2006).…”

“…This provides an essential basis for the transfer of research results from university laboratories and research institutes into practical applications. Pechoucek et al (2006) addressed three reasons that brought the successful application of agent technology:…”

“…In order to have an overall view of application domains of MAS, it is necessary to have a reasonable classification of agent-based application types. Amongst a lot of others, Pechoucek et al (2006) discussed that the available agent techniques have performed well in five application groups:…”