Development of an Autonomous Decentralized Transport Control System using Agent-Based Information Propagation and Swarm Intelligence

• Project/Area Number: 25350447
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: TSUJI Yasutaka 九州大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (90304732)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
• Keywords: 搬送システム / 群知能 / マルチエージェント / 生産システム / Energy-aware / 自律分散システム / 搬送制御 / energy awareness / シミュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A recent transport control system for a production system needs abilities to treat complicated transport requirement and reconfigure the system due to demand fluctuation etc.
This research proposed a multi-agent based transport control system which can perform both an adaptive allocation of the processing machine for a product and a dynamic routing to the allocated machine. In the proposed method, each element of the system acts as an agent and uses a combination of two types of information to drive out products: path information obtained by communication with neighboring agents and pheromone information deposited on the tracks of products.
Reduction of energy consumption in a production process becomes more important as an estimation criterion. The research also extended the proposed method to an energy-aware transport control method.

Research Products

• [Presentation] エネルギ消費を考慮したマルチエージェントに基づく搬送制御システムの一構成法 (2016)
  • Author(s): 辻康孝，藤田慎也
  • Organizer: 日本機械学会九州支部第69期総会・講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 熊本市 熊本大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-15
• [Presentation] 情報伝播と群知能を援用した自律搬送システムに関する研究 (2015)
  • Author(s): 辻康孝, 金澤昌範
  • Organizer: 生産システム部門研究発表講演会2015
  • Place of Presentation: 慶応大学日吉キャンパス（横浜市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-16
• [Presentation] エージェント間の伝播とフェロモン情報を用いた搬送システムにおけるロバスト性能評価 (2014)
  • Author(s): 金澤昌範，辻康孝
  • Organizer: 第33回計測自動制御学会九州支部学術講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州工業大学戸畑キャンパス（北九州市）
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-06 – 2014-12-07