Architectural design of a situated multiagent system for controlling automatic guided vehicles

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-128

  Weyns, Danny ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AGV; Automated transportation system; Automatic guided vehicles; Situated multiagent system; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTOMATED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51649088388     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.016801     Document Type: Article

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