Motion coordination algorithm for distributed agents in the cellular warehouse problem |
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Authors: | Katsumi Hama Sadayoshi Mikami Keiji Suzuki Yukinori Kakazu |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hakodate College of Technology, 14-1 Tokura-cho, Hakodate, 042-8501 Hokkaido, Japan;(2) Department of Media Architecture, Future University-Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan;(3) Department of Engineering, Laboratory of Complex Systems Engineering, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan |
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Abstract: | A distributed approach is shown to coordinate the motions of transport tables for the cellular warehouse problem. In this
approach, the tables are considered to be autonomous agents, and a built-in behavior function given by artificial neural networks
(ANNs) and the evolved problem-oriented connection weights navigate the agents to their specified goals. To determine the
agent to be moved, a measure of the priority to move is introduced. We show that distributed agents with the learned behavior
function and the negotiation value perform a similar strategy to a “serializable” solution forN-puzzle problems, which provides a good heuristic strategy for large-scale problems.
This work was presented, in part, at the Sixth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Tokyo, Japan, January
15–17, 2001 |
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Keywords: | Conflict resolution Action selection Learning Artificial neural networks Evolutionary programming |
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