Immunity-based autonomous guided vehicles control.

Autor: Lau, Henry Y.K., Wong, Vicky W.K., Lee, Ivan S.K.
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Zdroj: Applied Soft Computing; Jan2007, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p41-57, 17p
Abstrakt: Abstract: The human immune system is a self-organizing and highly distributed multi-agent system. These properties impart a high degree of robustness and performance that has created great interest in implementing engineering systems. This adopted engineering analogue is called artificial immune system (AIS). This paper presents an immunity-based control framework, which has the ability to detect changes, adapt to dynamic environment and coordinate vehicles activities for goals achievement, to deploy a fleet of autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) for material handling in an automated warehouse. A robust and flexible automated warehousing system is achieved through the self-organized and fully decentralized origination of AGVs. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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