Monitoring Agents in Complex Products - Enhancing a Discovery Robot with an Agent for Monitoring, Maintenance and Disaster Prevention

2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science

Langerak

Meyer

2013

This paper describes an agent-based architecture for domotics. This architecture is based on requirements about expandability and hardware independence. The heart of the system is a multi-agent system. This system is distributed over several platforms to open the possibility to tie the agents directly to the actuators, sensors and devices involved. This way a level of abstraction is created and all intelligence of the system as a whole is related to the agents involved. A proof of concept has been built and functions as expected. By implementing real and simulated devices and an easy to use graphical interface, all kind of compositions can be studied using this platform.

Agents in Domestic Environments

2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science

Langerak

Meyer

2013

Embedded autonomous agents in products supporting repair and recycling

2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS)

Puik

Telgen

et al. 2013

This paper describes a concept where products are equipped with agents that will assist in recycling and repairing the product. These so-called product agents represent the product in cyberspace and are capable to negotiate with other products in case of recycling or repair. Some product agents of broken products will offer spare parts, other agents will look for spare parts to repair a broken product. On the average this will enlarge the lifetime of a product and in some cases prevent wasting resources. Apart from reuse of spare parts these agents will also help to locate rare elements in a device, so these elements can be recycled more easily.

A Multiagent-Based Agile Work Distribution System

2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT)

Puik

Telgen

et al. 2013

This paper describes an agent-based and webbased system to instruct workers to build a product or to perform certain actions. The making of a product or actions to be performed is conducted by a so-called product agent that knows what should be done. In many cases the work to be done consists of a sequence or set of steps. The workers advertise their capabilities or steps they can perform and a product agent selects workers based on the steps the workers have advertised and distributes the work among the workers. Both workers and products are represented by agents that interact in a multiagent system. A simple example implementation is also presented as a proof of concept.